From 7c827a09ab7beabeb1bfb50b6c175c4051a12a58 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: wolf Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 19:06:41 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Mention PETSc 2.2.1 git-svn-id: https://svn.dealii.org/trunk@9705 0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d --- deal.II/doc/news/c-5.0.html | 9 ++++++++- deal.II/doc/readme.html | 7 +++++-- 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/deal.II/doc/news/c-5.0.html b/deal.II/doc/news/c-5.0.html index 67746be4aa..f78d446a8c 100644 --- a/deal.II/doc/news/c-5.0.html +++ b/deal.II/doc/news/c-5.0.html @@ -73,9 +73,16 @@ inconvenience this causes.

General

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  1. + Extended: deal.II 5.0.0 didn't work with the PETSc release 2.2.1 (which + came out after we released version 5.0.0). This should now be fixed: + deal.II can be linked against both PETSc 2.2.0 and 2.2.1. +
    + (WB 2004/10/07) +

  2. - Improved: the documentation generated by Doxygen now states the header + Improved: The documentation generated by Doxygen now states the header file defining a class. Furthermore, all deal.II exceptions are listed as classes and will soon be found in the module Exceptions. diff --git a/deal.II/doc/readme.html b/deal.II/doc/readme.html index 10eb13026b..cbcaf3a63d 100644 --- a/deal.II/doc/readme.html +++ b/deal.II/doc/readme.html @@ -763,10 +763,13 @@ need to have at least PETSc version 2.2.0 installed. Version 2.1.6 may work in most cases, but you will get some (harmless) warnings during compilation. Also, during testing with this version, we discovered a - serious bug in the TCQMR linear solver which basically renders it + serious bug in PETSc's TCQMR linear solver which basically renders it useless. All these problems have been reported and are supposed to be fixed in 2.2.0. Versions prior to 2.1.6 are likely not to work, but have - not been tested. + not been tested. While deal.II 5.0.0 could not be linked against PETSc + 2.2.1 (which came out after our version 5.0.0 and had a number of + incompatible interface changes), later versions of deal.II have + workarounds for PETSc 2.2.1.

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