INSTALL: PETSCs building issues

[federicamusazzi]

I have tried installing firedrake following the exact procedure reported on the website. My computer (Mac book air 2019 - intel) refuse to do it. When it tries to build PETSc the installation crashes.

Steps followed to install firedrake:

1. curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/firedrakeproject/firedrake/master/scripts/firedrake-install
2. python3.11 firedrake-install

Error message: Depending on your platform, PETSc may take an hour or more to build! Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/federicamusazzi/firedrake-install", line 1836, in install("petsc/") File "/Users/federicamusazzi/firedrake-install", line 1056, in install build_and_install_petsc() File "/Users/federicamusazzi/firedrake-install", line 1168, in build_and_install_petsc check_call([python, "./configure", "PETSC_DIR={}".format(petsc_dir), "PETSC_ARCH={}".format(petsc_arch)] + petsc_options) File "/Users/federicamusazzi/firedrake-install", line 676, in check_call log.debug(subprocess.check_output(arguments, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT, env=os.environ).decode()) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/usr/local/Cellar/python@3.11/3.11.10/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.11/lib/python3.11/subprocess.py", line 466, in check_output return run(*popenargs, stdout=PIPE, timeout=timeout, check=True, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/usr/local/Cellar/python@3.11/3.11.10/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.11/lib/python3.11/subprocess.py", line 571, in run raise CalledProcessError(retcode, process.args, subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['/Users/federicamusazzi/firedrake/bin/python', './configure', 'PETSC_DIR=/Users/federicamusazzi/firedrake/src/petsc', 'PETSC_ARCH=default', '--download-mpich-configure-arguments=--disable-opencl', '--with-debugging=0', '--download-pnetcdf', '--with-x=0', '--download-netcdf', '--download-suitesparse', '--download-superlu_dist', '--download-scalapack', '--download-openblas', '--with-zlib', '--CFLAGS=-Wno-implicit-function-declaration', '--LDFLAGS=-Wl,-ld_classic,-dead_strip_dylibs', '--download-metis', '--download-pastix', '--with-c2html=0', '--download-bison', '--with-fortran-bindings=0', '--download-hdf5', '--download-hwloc', '--download-mpich', '--download-hwloc-configure-arguments=--disable-opencl', "--download-openblas-make-options='USE_THREAD=0 USE_LOCKING=1 USE_OPENMP=0'", '--download-hypre', '--download-mumps', '--with-shared-libraries=1', '--download-ptscotch']' returned non-zero exit status 1. Install log saved in /Users/federicamusazzi/firedrake-install.log

firedrake-install.log configure.log

Environment

• MacOS Sonoma 14.6.1
• Python version: 3.11

Thank you if you can solve my issue!

[Ig-dolci]

Are you using homebrew python? This is a requirement for MacOS firedrake install.

[federicamusazzi]

Yes I am using python 3.11 installed by homebrew

[Ig-dolci]

Yes I am using python 3.11 installed by homebrew

Ok. We can try these two ways:

• Update Xcode version to 15.4 and python3 firedrake-install again
• Or keep the Xcode version to 15.3 (I think this is the code version in your machine) and try python3 firedrake-install with this firedrake-install script.

[connorjward]

@federicamusazzi have you managed to get things working?

[federicamusazzi]

Nothing to do, I also formatted my computer but it didn't work, I just got a different error firedrake-install.log configure.log

So I decided to give up and start using Firedrake on Colab, it is not the best idea as I need an internet connection to work but at least I can work.

[connorjward]

Have you got an up-to-date Xcode and homebrew?

Also, since you have an intel Mac you might have some success using one of our Docker containers: https://hub.docker.com/r/firedrakeproject/firedrake.