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

johannr@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 Garth N. Wells wrote:
> > johannr@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 Garth N. Wells wrote:
> > > > Where can I find the pkg-config files that are generated during the
> > > > build process, e.g. numpy.pc?
> > > They are located under the scons/pkgconfig subfolder. When installing
> > > DOLFIN, they will be copied to $prefix/lib/pkgconfig (unless pkgConfDir
> > > is
> > > given).
> > >
> > > > I need these to use
> > > >
> > > >    pkg-config dolfin
> > > The dolfin.pc file is located under the dolfin subfolder. To use
> > >
> > >     pkg-config dolfin
> > >
> > > you should first do
> > >
> > >     scons install prefix=<somewhere>
> > I'm seeing some strange behaviour when PETSc is enabled. Only the
> > dolfin.pc file is being installed correctly when I do
> >
> >    scons install prefix=<somewhere>
> >
> > A directory called '$prefix$ is begin created, which I guess shouldn't
> > be there.
>
> Fixed!
>
> > When just doing 'scons', the directory scons/pkgconfig is empty.
>
> Is any pkg-config files generated when you type 'scons' or do you get only
> output like this:
>
> Checking for numpy-1... yes
> Checking for scotch... yes
> Checking for ufc-1... yes
> ...
>
> In the latter case, you have probably already installed the pkg-config
> files and updated the PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable. Hence, no pkg-config files
> are generated or installed.

Yes, this is the problem I had.

On a side note, when compiling with PETSc, g++ is being used instead of 
mpicxx. Shouldn't it be mpicxx if that's what PETsc used?

Garth


> > When using enablePetsc=no, things look ok (except for there still being
> > a directory $prefix).
>
> Just manually remove the $prefix folder and try again.
>
> Johannes