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[Johannes Ring <johannr@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 09:15:57AM +0200, Johannes Ring wrote:
>> 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 :-)
>
> I have 1.3.36. Strange since I'm running on Karmic and biglue has 1.3.37.

Bigblue runs Hardy and I made the 1.3.37 package because the 1.3.33
package from the Ubuntu repository was to old (we require >= 1.3.35).
I will update SWIG on Hardy (and bigblue) after the upcoming DOLFIN
release.

Johannes