From: Wolfgang Bangerth Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:13:57 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Document that we do not allow compilation when using threads. X-Git-Tag: v8.0.0~6437 X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.dealii.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a6cbcd24bafd325f320c28f2aef2fa4b01e54b09;p=dealii.git Document that we do not allow compilation when using threads. git-svn-id: https://svn.dealii.org/trunk@20628 0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d --- diff --git a/deal.II/examples/step-17/doc/intro.dox b/deal.II/examples/step-17/doc/intro.dox index 36cf175f38..6772fed930 100644 --- a/deal.II/examples/step-17/doc/intro.dox +++ b/deal.II/examples/step-17/doc/intro.dox @@ -23,6 +23,12 @@ together with these two additional libraries is described in the README 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 +--disable-threads switch to ./configure. + 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