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Re: [Fenics] Release deadline

 

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 09:40:39PM +0100, Anders Logg wrote:
> 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.

The buildbot is green. Are we ready for a release of 0.9.7?

--
Anders

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