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On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 Garth N. Wells wrote:
> 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!
>>
>
> Nice. Just a few things so far:
>
> - My umfpack is not being detected (I'm using Ubuntu 7.10 and it's under
> 'suitesparse').

Do you have the package 'libsuitesparse-dev' installed? Are you running
scons with the enableUmfpack=1 option? It detects umfpack fine here on a
clean Ubuntu 7.10.

Johannes