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[Johannes Ring <johannr@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Johan Hake <hake@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Friday 25 September 2009 09:03:20 Harish Narayanan wrote:
>> Has anyone seen the following problem when trying to run python demos?
>> The C++ demos work, both in serial and in parallel. When I try to run
>> python demos (either in serial or in parallel), I receive the following
>> (on a hardy machine):
>>
>>
>> $ python demo.py
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "demo.py", line 16, in <module>
>>     V = VectorFunctionSpace(mesh, "CG", 1)
>>   File
>> "/home/harish/Work/FEniCS/build/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dolfin/function
>> space.py", line 271, in __init__
>>     spaces = dim*[FunctionSpace(mesh, family, degree, restriction)]
>>   File
>> "/home/harish/Work/FEniCS/build/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dolfin/function
>> space.py", line 194, in __init__
>>     FunctionSpaceBase.__init__(self, mesh, element)
>>   File
>> "/home/harish/Work/FEniCS/build/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dolfin/function
>> space.py", line 43, in __init__
>>     ufc_element, ufc_dofmap = jit(self._element)
>>   File
>> "/home/harish/Work/FEniCS/build/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dolfin/jit.py",
>> line 43, in mpi_jit
>>     if MPI.num_processes() == 1:
>> TypeError: num_processes() takes exactly 1 argument (0 given)
>
> I guess you have SWIG version 1.3.37?
>
> A regression bug was introduced in this release for static methods.
>
> You should probably upgrade your SWIG. SWIG is now at 1.3.40.
>
> Should we require SWIG version larger than 1.3.37 in our build system? Would
> this work for the different ubuntu packages?

If 1.3.36 works I think we should allow that. If not, I'll have to
build SWIG packages for hardy, intrepid, jaunty, and even karmic. I
would like to avoid that :-)

Johannes