Thanks Matt, Satish. A few issues though.

Like you said, the latest cygwin has python 2.6.8 which

does not have argparse. When I place the following
in path http://argparse.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/argparse.py

I can run the python build with 2.6.8.

However, the “ar” based build had worked fine and the python
based build fails for these two files.

src/snes/impls/MULTIB~1/multiblock.c

src/snes/impls/vi/rsaug/virsaug.c

Yep, it fails, but the build succeeds, so no problem.

It looks like these two files were NOT compiled in the ar based

build. The two make.log files are attached.

One more question. I tried to run the python based build
the second time (after it was unsuccessful the first time)

and then it deleted all the previous .o files it had created in
ARCH/lib/libpetsc-obj. How can that be avoided?

It does not do that unless you run 'clean'.

Matt

Chetan

From: petsc-dev-bounces@mcs.anl.gov [mailto:petsc-dev-bounces@mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Matthew Knepley
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2012 1:35 PM
To: For users of the development version of PETSc
Subject: Re: [petsc-dev] slow "ar Scq" on cygwin

On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Chetan Jhurani <chetan.jhurani@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi devs,

Is there a way to avoid running the archiver (ar)
every time a petsc directory is compiled?

The reason I'm asking this is that when libpetsc.lib
becomes large enough (say 100MB+, esp. for debug build),
"ar Sqc" on cygwin takes very long in each directory.
Depending on OS caching, very long can be 10 seconds per
PETSc directory just to run ar.

It creates a new temp file from scratch, puts stuff from
libpetsc.lib and new stuff in it and then renames the
temp file. As you can imagine, the compilation process is
fast in the beginning but crawls by the end. I've seen
the same IO sequence on Linux (with Sqc flags to ar), but
since cygwin IO is slower the effect is more clearly visible.
Building within a ramdisk leads to 25% faster compilation
but it was more of a curiosity.

Build with Python. It never uses antique things like ar :)

python2.7 ./config/builder2.py build

Matt

Chetan

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