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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 09:56:37PM +0100, Åsmund Ødegård wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 9:46 PM, Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 10:35:13AM -0600, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> >
> >  > - My umfpack is not being detected (I'm using Ubuntu 7.10 and it's under
> >  > 'suitesparse').
> >
> >  Shouldn't we have enableUmfpack=yes enabled by default?
> >
> >  Maybe we should do the same thing for everything else. So we look for
> >  PETSc and if it's there we use it. If someone doesn't want PETSc, then
> >  use enablePetsc=no.
> >
> 
> The defaults can easily be changed in the toplevel SConstruct!

ok!

> >
> >  > - Could we print some tips at the end for setting the library path,
> >  > similar to what was written to dolfin.conf?
> >
> >  Would be good.
> 
> It's the info in dolfin.pc you like to have writte out, right?
> 
> >
> >  I also wonder why having a writable PKG_CONFIG_PATH is necessary. I
> >  thought things got installed under scons/pkconfig?
> 
> It's not necessary to have a writable PKG_CONFIG_PATH, scons/pkgconfig
> is used if non is found. Let's just say there are some issues, so
> having a a nice place to store pkg-config files writeable and first in
> PKG_CONFIG_PATH makes things a bit nicer.

ok!

(The instructions on the web page say this is needed, so we could
change those instructions.)

> If you walk by my office and have a look at my whiteboard, you'll see
> some stuff that deals with at least some of the issues. Obviously,
> code on my whiteboard won't make anybody else happy...

I'm in Louisiana at the moment so it's a long walk... :-)

-- 
Anders


> >
> >  It would be nice to remove all the need for a user to do anything else
> >  but just writing 'scons'.
> 
> That's a plan!
> 
> Åsmund
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