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

Anders Logg wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 01:46:56PM +0000, Kerim Schroeder wrote:
> > > You need to install the development files for libxml2 (package 
> > > libxml2-dev under Ubuntu and Debian) to build DOLFIN
> > >
> > > You probably want to get umfpack too (although it's not necessary to 
> > > build DOLFIN).
> > >
> > > Garth
> > Thank you! That did the job :-)
> >
> > Kerim
>
> The main problem here is that the build system prints
>
>   ---------------------------------------------------------
>   If there were no errors, run
>
>       scons install
>
>   etc
>
> after first printing
>
>   scons: *** No targets specified and no Default() targets found. Stop.
>
> We need to make sure that we print different messages depending on
> whether the build was successful or failed. We discussed this a while
> back but decided to postpone fixing it. Is there a simple solution?

Yes, using the latest version of SCons :). It has some functionality to 
deal with build failures.

The latest SCons version is not distributed with Ubuntu, so I think that 
the conclusion was to live with the problem for a little while.

Garth

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