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[Harish Narayanan <harish.mlists@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/19/10 6:19 PM, Anders Logg wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 02:45:33PM +0200, Anders Logg wrote:
>> I'm currently not able to build FEniCS with Dorsal on my Ubuntu lucid.
>> For some strange reason, libparmetis.a gets messed up.
>>
>> It looks perfectly fine after the installation of ParMetis (a symlink
>> to $prefix/src/ParMetis-3.1.1/libparmetis.a) but then later during the
>> installation (I don't know when), it gets replaced by a symlink to
>> itself.
>>
>> Which other packages might be messing with the ParMETIS symlink?
> 
> Found it. Seems to be a problem with the symlinks in
> petscwithmumps.package.
> 
> Can we remove those symlinks? Will there ever be anything installed in
> 
>   ${INSTALL_PATH}/lib/${PETSC_ARCH}
> 
> ?

You can remove the symlinks. I think this whole symlinking business is a
holdover from an earlier (perhaps 3.0.x) petsc version, and things have
changed from 2.x to 3.0.x to 3.1.x.

> Dorsal is installing PETSc as a library ($prefix/include, lib etc)
> without any reference to PETSC_ARCH so those symlinks should not be
> needed.
> 
> --
> Anders
> 
> 
> 
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