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[Harish Narayanan <harish.mlists@xxxxxxxxx>]

Martin Sandve Alnæs wrote:
> On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Harish Narayanan
> <harish.mlists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 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
> 
> :)
> 
> Is it possible to add easy switch between debug and release builds as well?
> 
> I want something like
> 
>>>   $HOME/local/lib/fenics-stable-release
>>>   $HOME/local/lib/fenics-dev-release
>>>   $HOME/local/lib/fenics-stable-debug
>>>   $HOME/local/lib/fenics-dev-debug
> 
> Basically using "enableOptimize=1 enableDebug=0" for release versions
> and  "enableOptimize=0 enableDebug=1" for debug versions of dolfin.

Yes, this is possible. There will be some duplication of work (and
project files) unless you jump through hoops, but this is possible.

Harish