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["Garth N. Wells" <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx>]

Anders Logg wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 05:00:22PM +0000, Garth N. Wells wrote:
>  
> > johannr@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 Anders Logg wrote:
> > > > It looks like the SCOTCH test was modified to not include common.h
> > > > (as I suggested). But as pointed out by Johannes, common.h is needed
> > > > to compile the test program.
> > > >
> > > > Could we add common.h back?
> > > Sorry about that. Should be fixed now!
> > I'm having trouble with SCOTCH. I get
> >
> > Checking for scotch... no (pkg-config file not found)
> >   Trying to generate pkg-config file for scotch... failed
> >   *** Unable to generate a suitable pkg-config file for scotch.
> >   *** If scotch is present on your system, try setting the SCOTCH_DIR
> >   *** environment variable to the directory where scotch is installed.
> >   *** SCOTCH_DIR is currently set to /usr/local
> >
> > both before and after setting SCOCTH_DIR.
>
> I guess you did it without the typo?

Yes, even without the typo it doesn't work. Where can I find a log with 
the tests that scons has performed so I can have a go at debugging this?

Garth


> Anyway, it works for me now.
>
> Another suggestion for the build system is to collect things that work
> and things that didn't work so instead of
>
>   Found optional package: petsc
>   Unable to find optional package: slepc
>   Found optional package: scotch
>   Found optional package: umfpack
>   Found optional package: gts
>
> one gets
>
>   Found optional package: petsc
>   Found optional package: scotch
>   Found optional package: umfpack
>   Found optional package: gts
>   Unable to find optional package: slepc
>
> Don't know how hard this is to fix. It's not very important but pretty
> printing is worth quite a bit.