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On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 Garth N. Wells wrote:
> Anders Logg wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 02:17:43PM +0100, Anders Logg wrote:
>>> Do we need to include common.h in the test for SCOTCH?
>>> I did not install this file on my system since it's not
>>> needed (we only use scotch.h). This means that the test
>>> for SCOTCH fails for me.
>>>
>>> SCOTCH does not have a proper way to install things as far as I know
>>> so one needs to copy files manually to $prefix/include and then
>>> we shoudn't require that users copy a file that's not needed (and
>>> should be named something else...).
>>
>> After installing common.h in /usr/local/include, I get the following
>> error:
>>
>>   File "scotch.py", line 146, in pkgTests
>>     scotch_h_file = open("%s/include/scotch.h" % scotch_dir, 'r')
>> IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
>> '/usr/local/scotch/include/scotch.h'
>>
>> My scotch.h is in /usr/local/include, not in /usr/local/scotch/include/.
>>
>
> To add to this, the SCOTH files are not found even if they are under
> /usr/local. I need to set SCOCTH_DIR=/usr/local.

Yes, the scotch.py script looks for SCOTCH in /usr/local/scotch if
SCOTCH_DIR isn't defined. I am not sure why the default location is
/usr/local/scotch and not /usr/local. I guess we can change it to
/usr/local.

Johannes

> Garth
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