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["Martin Sandve Alnæs" <martinal@xxxxxxxxx>]

2008/11/3 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

How can the installation dir be set in a portable way then?
Currently ufc/setup.py uses sys.prefix, which is portable.

And should instant set PKG_CONFIG_ALLOW_SYSTEM_CFLAGS=1
for all its pkg-config calls? It's typically intended for use with SWIG,
so I guess that would be ok?

--
Martin