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Re: [Fenics] Release deadline

 

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 08:24:28PM +0000, Harish Narayanan wrote:
> On 2/16/10 8:12 PM, Johannes Ring wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx> 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... :-)
> >>
> >> 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?
> >
> > Yes, it is possible, but that would be messing with JHBuild.
>
> Might I suggest piping the output through sed?
>
> :)

I'm not sure it's worth the effort. I can live with it. I just
wondered if it was part of JHBuild itself or the configuration/run
scripts.

--
Anders

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