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[Harish Narayanan <harish.mlists@xxxxxxxxx>]

Anders Logg wrote:
>> Yes, there was an old boost.pc file in the path from the old stable
>> dolfin installation (which I didn't want to touch).
>>
>> I also removed boost 1.35 from apt, libboost-dev uses 1.34, but I
>> think it was the .pc file.
>> Reminder to self: always locate foo.pc before asking dolfin-dev...
>> (I also need an easier system for handling multiple installed versions.)
> 
> I've started using Dorsal for this. I set the installation path to
> one of
> 
>   $HOME/local/lib/fenics-stable
>   $HOME/local/lib/fenics-dev
> 
> and then have aliases fenics-stable and fenics-dev for sourcing the
> appropriate dolfin.conf.
> 
> And I've also disabled building of DOLFIN in the dev configuration
> (very easy to do with Dorsal) since I need to rebuild that manually
> all the time while working on it.
> 
> I also disable building of PETSc, SLEPc, Trilinos etc after the first
> install. Then I can just rerun Dorsal to install all the light-weight
> fast-changing packages (UFL, UFC, FFC etc).

And with this ringing endorsement (and good summary of how Dorsal is to
be used in practice), I foresee that the number of hits to its project
page will go up from 20 a month to a whopping 30!

Harish