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On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 Anders Logg wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 04:34:40PM +0100, Anders Logg wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 01:12:17PM +0100, johannr@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> > On Tue, February 19, 2008 Anders Logg wrote:
>> > > On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 11:18:01AM +0000, Garth N. Wells wrote:
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >> Ola Skavhaug wrote:
>> > >> > Johannes Ring skrev den 19/02-2008 følgende:
>> > >> >> On Mon, Feb 18, Anders Logg wrote:
>> > >> >>> On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 02:33:40PM +0000, Garth N. Wells wrote:
>> > >> >>>> This is good juncture at which re-focus on important goals for
>> a
>> > >> >>>> hopefully not too distant next release. Three priorities that
>> I see
>> > >> are:
>> > >> >>>>
>> > >> >>>> - New build system.
>> > >> >>> I think Johannes (http://simula.no/portal_memberdata/johannr)
>> has
>> > >> >>> started looking at this.
>> > >> >> Unfortunately, I haven't had very much time to look at this
>> lately.
>> > >> >> Hopefully I will get some time later this week so I can start
>> working
>> > >> on
>> > >> >> this (if that is what Ola wants me to do).
>> > >> >
>> > >> > Sure, this is relatively high on the priority list. As a nice
>> side
>> > >> effect, you
>> > >> > will become an expert SCons user, useful in lots of other
>> projects :)
>> > >> >
>> > >>
>> > >> Give that a release has just been made, this could be a good moment
>> to
>> > >> bite the bullet and implement the new build system in dolfin-dev,
>> and
>> > >> accept that things will be broken for a little while. It would be
>> good
>> > >> to have the build system largely sorted out before getting stuck
>> into
>> > >> parallelisation.
>> > >>
>> > >> Garth
>> > >
>> > > Yes, it's the only way to get it tested. As long as the scons-based
>> > > DOLFIN is in a separate repository, it will be ignored by everyone.
>> > >
>> > > So let's break things as quickly as possible so we can fix them.
>> > >
>> > > Johannes, tell us as soon as you have something that "works" (for
>> > > you). Then everyone can take a quick look and if there are no
>> > > objections we push it to the main repository and work from there.
>> >
>> > The SCons build system for DOLFIN should be in a more or less
>> "working"
>> > state right now. I have updated the instructions at
>> > http://www.fenics.org/wiki/Compiling_DOLFIN_with_SCons
>> >
>> > Please, have a go!
>>
>> Very nice! (I haven't checked it yet but I assume it is...)
>>
>> I suggest we set a deadline for next Friday (March 14) for comments on
>> the new build system. So let's everyone try it out and see if it
>> works. If there are no major objections, we'll push this to dolfin-dev
>> next Friday.
>
> I get the following error when running scons:
>
> scons: Reading SConscript files ...
> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'defaultPythonLib':
>   File "/scratch/src/dolfin/dolfin-scons/SConstruct", line 50:
>     scons.defaultPythonLib(prefix="$prefix")),

I am not sure way this happens. Is it possible that you have an old
version of simula-scons on your system? Try to use the simula-scons that
is available under dolfin-scons/scons explicitly:

export PYTHONPATH=/path/to/dolfin-scons/scons/simula-scons:$PYTHONPATH

Johannes