Firedrake installation on macOS

[picalarix]

I am trying to install Firedrake on MacOS 14.2.1 after having installed and fixed Homebrew for this. Now I don't know what could be the problem with the installation, which disrupts as seen below.

picalarix@MacBook-Air-5 ~ % python3 firedrake-install
Running firedrake-install
Installing command line tools...
Checking brew doctor...
Installing required packages via homebrew...
Required package 'gcc' is already installed via Homebrew.
Required package 'autoconf' is already installed via Homebrew.
Required package 'make' is already installed via Homebrew.
Required package 'automake' is already installed via Homebrew.
Required package 'cmake' is already installed via Homebrew.
Required package 'libtool' is already installed via Homebrew.
Required package 'boost' is already installed via Homebrew.
Creating firedrake venv in '/Users/picalarix/firedrake'.
BLAS config is {'BLAS': '/Users/picalarix/firedrake/src/petsc/default', 'OPENBLAS': '/Users/picalarix/firedrake/src/petsc/default', 'LDFLAGS': '-L/opt/homebrew/opt/gcc/lib/gcc/13'}
Configuration saved to /Users/picalarix/firedrake/.configuration.json
Cloning firedrake

Failed to clone firedrake using ssh, falling back to https.
Successfully cloned repository firedrake.
Checking out branch master
Successfully checked out branch master
Updating submodules.
Successfully updated submodules.
Creating firedrake-update script.
Pip installing VTK for Python 3.11 to venv
Cloning the dependencies of firedrake
Cloning ufl

Failed to clone ufl using ssh, falling back to https.
Successfully cloned repository ufl.
Checking out branch master
Successfully checked out branch master
Updating submodules.
Successfully updated submodules.
Cloning fiat

Failed to clone fiat using ssh, falling back to https.
Successfully cloned repository fiat.
Checking out branch master
Successfully checked out branch master
Updating submodules.
Successfully updated submodules.
Cloning FInAT

Failed to clone FInAT using ssh, falling back to https.
Successfully cloned repository FInAT.
Checking out branch master
Successfully checked out branch master
Updating submodules.
Successfully updated submodules.
Cloning tsfc

Failed to clone tsfc using ssh, falling back to https.
Successfully cloned repository tsfc.
Checking out branch master
Successfully checked out branch master
Updating submodules.
Successfully updated submodules.
Cloning PyOP2

Failed to clone PyOP2 using ssh, falling back to https.
Successfully cloned repository PyOP2.
Checking out branch master
Successfully checked out branch master
Updating submodules.
Successfully updated submodules.
Cloning pyadjoint

Failed to clone pyadjoint using ssh, falling back to https.
Successfully cloned repository pyadjoint.
Checking out branch master
Successfully checked out branch master
Updating submodules.
Successfully updated submodules.
Cloning petsc

Failed to clone petsc using ssh, falling back to https.
Successfully cloned repository petsc.
Checking out branch firedrake
Successfully checked out branch firedrake
Updating submodules.
Successfully updated submodules.
Cloning pytest-mpi

Failed to clone pytest-mpi using ssh, falling back to https.
Successfully cloned repository pytest-mpi.
Checking out branch main
Successfully checked out branch main
Updating submodules.
Successfully updated submodules.
Cloning the dependencies of PyOP2
Cloning loopy

Failed to clone loopy using ssh, falling back to https.
Successfully cloned repository loopy.
Checking out branch main
Successfully checked out branch main
Updating submodules.
Successfully updated submodules.
Installing petsc/
Depending on your platform, PETSc may take an hour or more to build!
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/picalarix/firedrake-install", line 1896, in <module>
    install("petsc/")
  File "/Users/picalarix/firedrake-install", line 1051, in install
    build_and_install_petsc()
  File "/Users/picalarix/firedrake-install", line 1163, in build_and_install_petsc
    check_call([python, "./configure", "PETSC_DIR={}".format(petsc_dir), "PETSC_ARCH={}".format(petsc_arch)] + petsc_options)
  File "/Users/picalarix/firedrake-install", line 664, in check_call
    log.debug(subprocess.check_output(arguments, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT, env=os.environ).decode())
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/Library/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 "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.11/lib/python3.11/subprocess.py", line 571, in run
    raise CalledProcessError(retcode, process.args,
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['/Users/picalarix/firedrake/bin/python', './configure', 'PETSC_DIR=/Users/picalarix/firedrake/src/petsc', 'PETSC_ARCH=default', '--download-hypre', '--CFLAGS=-Wno-implicit-function-declaration', '--download-chaco', '--with-zlib', '--with-fortran-bindings=0', '--download-bison', '--download-hwloc', '--download-netcdf', '--download-mumps', '--with-x=0', '--download-hdf5', '--download-pnetcdf', '--with-debugging=0', "--download-openblas-make-options='USE_THREAD=0 USE_LOCKING=1 USE_OPENMP=0'", '--download-ptscotch', '--with-shared-libraries=1', '--download-mpich', '--download-openblas', '--LDFLAGS=-Wl,-ld_classic', '--download-pastix', '--download-scalapack', '--download-metis', '--download-mpich-configure-arguments=--disable-opencl', '--download-hwloc-configure-arguments=--disable-opencl', '--download-suitesparse', '--download-superlu_dist', '--with-c2html=0']' returned non-zero exit status 1.


Install log saved in /Users/picalarix/firedrake-install.log

firedrake-install.log
configure.log

I would be grateful for any advise.

[connorjward]

The PETSc install is failing due to a network issue. I think it's possible that you simply lost internet connection and trying again would fix it.
I also notice that you are not using the right Python. You should use a Python installed with homebrew. You can run $(brew --prefix)/bin/python3 firedrake-install.

[picalarix]

Python seems to have been the problem. The installation was successful now and so far, everything works fine.
Thank you for your help!