dolfin team mailing list archive

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

Martin Sandve Alnæs wrote:
> I've just set up a fresh install of Kubuntu Hardy with FEniCS software
> on my new home laptop.
>
> Good news:
> - A minimal dolfin build only requires dependencies from apt in Ubuntu Hardy.
>
> Bad news:
> - The petsc version installed by apt isn't seen by scons.
> - I got a lot of errors (crashes) when running the tests. These seem
> related to MPI.

I tried the Hardy OpenMPI package without success. It looks 'less' 
broken than the Gutsy package which was completely broken, but still 
doesn't seem to be built correctly.

Garth


> Good news:
> - Compiling dolfin with "enableMpi=no" resulted in tests passing.
>
> Is there a reason to build with mpi when PETSc and Scotch are missing?
> Maybe the build system could disable mpi based on some criteria?
>
> --
> Martin
> _______________________________________________
> DOLFIN-dev mailing list
> DOLFIN-dev@xxxxxxxxxx
> http://www.fenics.org/mailman/listinfo/dolfin-dev