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[Faheem Mitha <faheem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Anders Logg wrote:

> We fixed a number of big things with version 0.5.8, so I don't think 
> it's a good idea to use 0.5.7. It shouldn't be difficult for you to do 
> 0.5.8 if you can do 0.5.7. The only thing that's changed with respect to 
> compilation of DOLFIN between 0.5.7 and 0.5.8 is that we introduced a 
> new make target called 'demo'. Just doing 'make' no longer compiles the 
> examples in the src/demo directory. This is to keep things more 
> light-weight --- there are many examples that take a long time to 
> compile and the total sum of all generated binaries is quite large. 
> Anyway, you probably don't want to package the demos. (Maybe at some 
> point, there can be a separate dolfin-demo package, but that package 
> should probably just contain the source.)

The question is whether 0.5.8 compiles with PETSc 2.2.1. I don't have 2.3 
packaged, and was planning to wait on Powell before trying to package 
0.5.8 (assuming it does not compile with 2.2.1).

                                                               Faheem.