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

johannr@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 Garth N. Wells wrote:
> > 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
>
> There is a log file under the scons folder called simula_scons.log.
> However, I'm not sure if this will help in this case. The best way to
> debug this problem is probably to run the scotch.py pkg-config generator
> script (under scons/simula-scons/simula_scons/pkgconfiggenerators) by
> itself and then edit this script.
>
> Johannes

I didn't have the SCOTCH files common.h and libcommon.a installed. 
Strange the it worked before with the old build system.

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.
> >
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