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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 06:03:52PM +0100, Anders Logg wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 05:34:36PM +0100, Åsmund Ødegård wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx> 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="$prefix")),
> > 
> > Try hg pull/update and show me the output of 'scons' (there should be
> > some debug-print towards the top).
> > 
> > Åsmund
> 
> scons: Reading SConscript files ...
> /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/simula_scons/__init__.pyc
> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'defaultPythonLib':
>   File "/scratch/src/dolfin/dolfin-scons/SConstruct", line 52:
>     scons.defaultPythonLib(prefix="$prefix")),

ok, I see now what the problem is. I do have an old version of
simula_scons.

-- 
Anders