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Document that we do not allow compilation when using threads.
authorWolfgang Bangerth <bangerth@math.tamu.edu>
Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:13:57 +0000 (13:13 +0000)
committerWolfgang Bangerth <bangerth@math.tamu.edu>
Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:13:57 +0000 (13:13 +0000)
git-svn-id: https://svn.dealii.org/trunk@20628 0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d

deal.II/examples/step-17/doc/intro.dox

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@@ -23,6 +23,12 @@ together with these two additional libraries is described in the <a
 href="../../readme.html" target="body">README</a> file.
 
 
+There is an additional caveat: PETSc appears not to co-operate well when using
+threads and the program crashes when deal.II is compiled it its usual mode
+supporting multithreading. The program can therefore only be compiled and run
+if multithreading is disabled upon configuration of deal.II using the
+<code>--disable-threads</code> switch to <code>./configure</code>.
+
 
 Now, for the details: as mentioned, the program does not compute anything new,
 so the use of finite element classes etc. is exactly the same as before. The

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