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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 03:09:07PM +0100, johannr@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 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

Sounds good.

-- 
Anders