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")),
