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[Johan Hake <hake@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 03 November 2008 14:25:45 Johannes Ring wrote:
> On Mon, November 3, 2008 14:07, Johan Hake wrote:
> > On Monday 03 November 2008 13:31:29 Martin Sandve Alnæs wrote:
> >> 2008/11/3 Johan Hake <hake@xxxxxxxxx>:
> >> > On Monday 03 November 2008 13:07:38 Garth N. Wells wrote:
> >> >> DOLFIN wrote:
> >> >> > One or more new changesets pushed to the primary dolfin repository.
> >> >> > A short summary of the last three changesets is included below.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > changeset:   5069:fbbadf8f8b7ac1d0320109bb0c1e0f3a90a32f8a
> >> >> > tag:         tip
> >> >> > user:        "Johan Hake <hake@xxxxxxxxx>"
> >> >> > date:        Sun Nov 02 16:16:54 2008 +0100
> >> >> > files:       dolfin/function/dolfin_function.h dolfin/scons.cfg
> >> >> > dolfin/swig/dolfin_docstrings.i dolfin/swig/dolfin_function_post.i
> >> >> > dolfin/swig/dolfin_function_pre.i dolfin/swig/dolfin_headers.i
> >> >> > description:
> >> >> > Added SubFunction to dolfin_function.h so swig interface
> >> >> > compile\nRename of function.in to function._in\nAdded __contains__
> >>
> >> in
> >>
> >> >> > FunctionSpace so one can write u in V.\nAdded % import ufc.h in
> >> >> > dolfin_dunction_pre.i as dolfin::function inherits
> >>
> >> ufc::function\nand
> >>
> >> >> > last added ufc-1 as swig dependencies so swig find ufc.h
> >> >>
> >> >> Related to this change, I'm getting the swig error
> >> >>
> >> >>      dolfin/swig/dolfin_function_pre.i:2: Error: Unable to find
> >>
> >> 'ufc.h'
> >>
> >> > Hmmm, this should work...
> >> >
> >> > I added 'ufc-1' to SwigDependencies so simula_scons would pick up the
> >> > dependency. I guess that ufc.h is located in a directory that is
> >>
> >> included
> >>
> >> > anyway on my computer, and thats why I did not get the error.
> >> >
> >> > Johannes any clue why this is not working?
> >> >
> >> > Johan
> >>
> >> My previous experience is that pkg-config usually skips printing
> >> default include directories like /usr/include and /usr/local/include,
> >> while SWIG does not include those by default.
> >> If UFC is in one of those, just asking pkg-config won't work.
> >
> > It's only when something is installed under /usr that pkg-config does not
> > give
> > any output. This beaviour can be configured by setting the environment
> > variable
> >
> >   PKG_CONFIG_ALLOW_SYSTEM_CFLAGS
> >
> > before calling pkg-config.
> >
> > ufc.h is installed under /usr if not given any prefix. We should probably
> > set
> > default installation directory to /usr/local instead of /usr when not set
> > by
> > user while running ufc/setup.py.
> >
> > If no one have any objection maybee Johannes can do that?
>
> I guess someone with write access to the UFC hg repository should fix
> that. 

Ahh, I thought you had access to all sort of places :)

> However, it won't help if someone installs UFC under /usr 
> deliberately. A solution might be to force SWIG to always look under
> /usr/include by adding it to the default SWIG flags. It shouldn't do any
> harm i guess.

I think we should change the installation dir _and_ set the environment 
variable PKG_CONFIG_ALLOW_SYSTEM_CFLAGS when calling pkg-config in 
simula_scons.

Johan