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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 02:36:19PM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote:

> I've successfully built DOLFIN using the steps you describe above.
> 
> I'm now also packaged an *extremely* primitive Debian package for PETSc 
> 2.2.1. This uses the steps you describe above, with the difference that I 
> use PETSc's 'make install' target.

Good to know!

I guess you have seen that we have now updated to PETSc 2.3.0...

> I've not used Powell's packaging. I tried, but had difficulty 
> understanding it, so opted for a from-scratch approach.
> 
> To build dolfin against this build of petsc, I ran
> 
> ./configure --with-petsc-dir=/usr/lib/petsc-2.2.1
> 
> I got the error messages
> 
> make: *** No rule to make target `getincludedirs'.  Stop.
> make: *** No rule to make target `getlinklibs'.  Stop.
> 
> However, the configure script does not actually stop. :-)

Can you send the output from DOLFINs configure? In particular the part
where it says "using PETSC_DIR...".

> But, later on it cannot find the include dirs etc. In successful builds 
> these messages did not appear. On further investigation, I see it is 
> trying to source files inside the directory 'bmake', possibly 'variable'.
> 
> Please take a look and let me know what I am doing wrong. At a superfical 
> comparison, the result looks similar to an in-place build like you 
> suggested. I do think that DOLFIN should be able to build against the 
> unmodified result of a 'make install'.
> 
> You can get my version of petsc 2.2.1 from
> 
> deb http://www.cbcb.duke.edu/~faheem/debian/ ./
> deb-src http://www.cbcb.duke.edu/~faheem/debian/ ./
> 
> Just do
> 
> apt-get source petsc
> 
> or
> 
> apt-get install libpetsc
> 
> As I said, this is extremely primitive, so any comments for improvement 
> would be appreciated.
> 
> Note that one thing that should be improved, is that according to apt, the 
> space used by this package is 130 Mb, while Powell's package for 2.2.0 was 
> around 11 Mb. So there is room for trimming down and breaking into smaller 
> packages.

Maybe this will be useful if we decide to provide precompiled packages
for DOLFIN, but the best thing would be if PETSc (and DOLFIN) was
available directly from Debian.

/Anders