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[Andy Ray Terrel <aterrel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 1:02 AM, Johannes Ring <johannr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 12:16 AM, Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 11:48:27AM -0500, Andy Ray Terrel wrote:
>>> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Harish Narayanan
>>> <harish.mlists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> > Andy Ray Terrel wrote:
>>> >> So I've updated quite a bit of software and it looks like dolfin (hg
>>> >> pulled) is having problems installing for me.  I thought I would shoot
>>> >> this out to see if anyone has seen this error before I go down the
>>> >> rabbit hole.
>>> >>
>>> >> aterrel@dhcp-11-18:~/workspace/dolfin$ scons
>>> >> scons: Reading SConscript files ...
>>> >> /Users/aterrel/workspace/dolfin/scons/simula-scons
>>> >> KeyError: 'enableBenchmarks':
>>> >>   File "/Users/aterrel/workspace/dolfin/SConstruct", line 387:
>>> >>     exports=["env", "modules", "configuredPackages", "buildDataHash"])
>>> >>   File "/usr/local/lib/scons-1.2.0.d20090919/SCons/Script/SConscript.py",
>>> >> line 553:
>>> >>     return apply(_SConscript, [self.fs,] + files, subst_kw)
>>> >>   File "/usr/local/lib/scons-1.2.0.d20090919/SCons/Script/SConscript.py",
>>> >> line 262:
>>> >>     exec _file_ in call_stack[-1].globals
>>> >>   File "/Users/aterrel/workspace/dolfin/dolfin/SConscript", line 352:
>>> >>     if env["enableBenchmarks"]:
>>> >>   File "/usr/local/lib/scons-1.2.0.d20090919/SCons/Environment.py", line 408:
>>> >>     return self._dict[key]
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> FWIW, my software setup:
>>> >>   Mac OS X 10.7
>>> >
>>> > 10.6?
>>>
>>> Yes 10.6.  Sorry.
>>>
>>> Also looks like running 'scons configure' first avoids the problem, for now.
>>
>> Is there a test in the build system for running scons configure before
>> building? There should be some informative message.
>
> Yes, there is. You should get the following message if 'scons
> configure' hasn't been run:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> No configuration found. Please run
>
>    scons configure
>
> before building DOLFIN. To view a complete list of
> available configuration options, run
>
>    scons configure --help or -h
>
> For SCons specific options, run
>
>    scons --help-options or -H
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
> However, there might be cases where this is not displayed. I don't know.
>
> Johannes

My case was that there was an old scons cache and it didn't have all
the right keys in it.

-- Andy