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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 07:39:31AM +0100, Harish Narayanan wrote:
> Martin West wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > 	I have tried a bit this weekend to get Dolfin etc. installed on my  
> > MacBook With OS X 10.5. I was following the wiki instructions  but  
> > they seem to depart from what was happening towards the end.  I was of  
> > course ultimately unsuccessful.  I was wondering if there are any  
> > developers who have it all running well on OS  X, and if there are, do  
> > they know if the Wiki instructions are still up to date?
> 
> I'm afraid those instructions are quite outdated. The following steps
> work as of today.
> 
> 1. You will first need to install Fink (the source distribution) from
> http://www.finkproject.org/download/srcdist.php?phpLang=en .
> 
> Either during initial setup or using 'fink configure', you need to allow
> the use of unstable packages. (Similar to Debian.)
> http://www.finkproject.org/faq/usage-fink.php#unstable
> 
> 2. Fetch an archive of Dorsal (a build script) from the following URI:
> http://www.fenics.org/dev/dorsal/ . There are gzip, bzip2, zip links on top.
> 
> 3. Uncompress it, modify dorsal.cfg to your liking and run dorsal.sh. It
> will give you Leopard specific tips regarding installing pre-requisites
> (via Fink) and then proceed to do the brunt of the work for you.

Should the outdated instructions be removed? Or perhaps replaced by
these instructions?

-- 
Anders

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