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[Mandus <mandus@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/11/06, LUK ShunTim <shuntim.luk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Anders Logg wrote:
[snip]
> >
> > Do you have configarch in any of those directories?
>
> No; and "dpkg -S configarch" turns up nothing. Maybe the debian package
> does not include it.

It could be that 'configarch' is named 'petscarch' in the debian
petsc2.3.1 package. At least there is such a command which produce
similar output.

> >
> > I haven't tried DOLFIN with Debian's PETSc for a long time since it
> > wasn't updated for a while, but maybe it has been now.
>
> It's now 2.3.1 and that's why I'd like to have a try.
>
> >
> > /Anders
> >
>
> I tried copying configarch over (from the petsc source tree into
> $PETSC_DIR/bin), set the PATH and now it gets past, but some more
> errors. :-(
>
> ".....
> checking for configarch... yes
> make: *** No rule to make target `getincludedirs'.  Stop.
> make: *** No rule to make target `getlinklibs'.  Stop.
> ...."

The ./configure in  dolfin needs the makefiles from PETSc to execute
things like"
'make -s -C $PETSC_DIR getincludedirs....'

So, unfortunately the debian package of petsc and dolfin from source
does not work very well together!


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