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Re: [Fenics] Release deadline

 


Anders Logg wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 06:20:35PM +0000, Garth N. Wells wrote:
>>
>> Johannes Ring wrote:
>>> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Garth N. Wells <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> Johannes Ring wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Garth N. Wells <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>> Anders Logg wrote:
>>>>>>> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 03:38:18PM +0000, Garth N. Wells wrote:
>>>>>>>> Anders Logg wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 04:29:24PM +0100, Anders Logg wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 01:23:33PM +0100, Johannes Ring wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Harish Narayanan
>>>>>>>>>>> <harish.mlists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/16/10 10:27 AM, Johannes Ring wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Harish Narayanan
>>>>>>>>>>>>> <harish.mlists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/16/10 9:06 AM, Garth N. Wells wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Anders Logg wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 08:42:55AM +0000, Garth N. Wells wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Anders Logg wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 09:09:31AM +0100, Johannes Ring wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 03:49:05PM +0100, Anders Logg wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>   UFL    0.5.2
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>   FErari 0.2.0
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>   FFC    0.9.1
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Now released.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>   Instant 0.9.8: Why is the buildbot failing?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Now released.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>   DOLFIN  0.9.7: SCOTCH problems
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Remains to fix:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>  - Drop Hardy support (upgrade buildbots)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> This might take some time, at least for linux64-exp since I have no
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> control over this. I guess it will be upgraded when Lucid is out.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> What should we install on hardy-i386? Karmic or perhaps Lucid?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I think we should choose the simplest option. I don't know what is
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> easiest and fastest, either dropping Hardy support (which requires
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> upgrades of buildbots and some extra administration) or adding the
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> required #ifdefs for unordered_set/set. Garth?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I don't want to add ifdefs (it actually involves more than just that).
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Harish told me yesterday that he wasn't using the standard OSX gcc (his
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> old version didn't support tr1 well), which means we could probably
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> switch back to using the tr1 unordered containers and not break Hardy or
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> standard standard OSX installations.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I would still suggest that we drop Hardy in the near future, perhaps
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> once Lucid is out.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> That seems like a good plan since Lucid is the next LTS release.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Do you know which #ifdefs to add so we can get the buildbot green?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> No ifdefs. Just change
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>   boost::unordered_set -> std::tr1::unordered_set
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>   boost::unordered_map -> std::tr1::unordered_map
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and the relevant includes.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> This should work, except it might break the mac buildbot. While I wasn't
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> using the most recent OS X or gcc, I think I was in line with the mac
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> buildbot.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Johannes, what does the buildbot run? Leopard or Snow Leopard, and what
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> gcc does it use?
>>>>>>>>>>>>> I think it was Leopard and gcc 4.3 from fink. However, the mac
>>>>>>>>>>>>> buildbot has been offline for some weeks now. We have bought a new
>>>>>>>>>>>>> imac to be used as a dedicated mac buildbot but I haven't started to
>>>>>>>>>>>>> install anything on it yet. I'm not sure if we should go for fink or
>>>>>>>>>>>>> macports. Any recommendations?
>>>>>>>>>>>> I suggest MacPorts. It is a bit more unstable than fink, but it allows
>>>>>>>>>>>> for greater control and has a very recent collection of packages.
>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks, I will look at MacPorts when I setup the new buildbot.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Johannes
>>>>>>>>>> So is the conclusion that std::tr1::unordered_set will work with
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>   1. Modern operating systems
>>>>>>>>>>   2. Ubuntu Hardy
>>>>>>>>>>   3. New Mac versions (which is what we will run on the buildbot)
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> ?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> If so I (or someone else) can switch to std::tr1::unordered_set.
>>>>>>>>> And the scotch/parmetis include thing needs to be fixed. Garth?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I can take a look tonight, although I haven't followed closely what the
>>>>>>>> problem is.
>>>>>>> Great. There seems to be a conflict between two versions of
>>>>>>> parmetis.h, the ParMETIS one and another installed by SCOTCH.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I think the solution is to add a scotch/ prefix in the #include
>>>>>>> and modify the include path accordingly so it doesn't pick up
>>>>>>> parmetis.h from SCOTCH when the real one is needed.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> How can I reproduce the problem? I don't see it on my machine. Sounds
>>>>>> strange that SCOTCH includes parmetis.h. Is it the compatibility
>>>>>> functions that SCOTCH provides that cause the problem?
>>>>> This is how I build SCOTCH and PT-SCOTCH on the buildbot:
>>>>>
>>>>>   wget http://gforge.inria.fr/frs/download.php/23390/scotch_5.1.7.tar.gz
>>>>>   tar zxf scotch_5.1.7.tar.gz
>>>>>   cd scotch_5.1/src
>>>>>   ln -s Make.inc/Makefile.inc.i686_pc_linux2 Makefile.inc
>>>>>   sed -i "/^CCD/s/gcc/mpicc/g" Makefile.in
>>>>>   sed -i "/^CFLAGS/s/= /= -fPIC /g" Makefile.inc
>>>>>   make
>>>>>   make ptscotch
>>>>>   cd ..
>>>>>   export SCOTCH_DIR=$PWD
>>>>>
>>>>> Then I have
>>>>>
>>>>>   ls $SCOTCH_DIR/include
>>>>>   metis.h  parmetis.h  ptscotchf.h  ptscotch.h  scotchf.h  scotch.h
>>>>>
>>>>> But it seems that if I do "make install" it won't copy metis.h and
>>>>> parmetis.h to $prefix/include so I guess that is the solution.
>>>>>
>>>> That's right. Hopefully this fixes the problem.
>>> Yes, let's hope so. I have forced a rebuild on the buildbot.
>>>
>> I've just pushed a change for the unordered sets and forced a build.
>>
>> Garth
> 
> Looking good so far... :-)
> 

linux64-exp is failing. Looks like SCOTCH hasn't been fixed on it.

Garth

> Johannes, the output from the buildbot is somewhat confusing. It
> writes things like
> 
>   *** Building dolfin *** [1/1]
> 
> When I browse the output from buildbot, I always think that looks like
> an error (because of the ***). Would it be possible to change to for
> example
> 
>   --- Building dolfin --- [1/1]
> 
> Or perhaps it's built into the system?
> 
> --
> Anders
> 



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