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[Harish Narayanan <harish.mlists@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/23/10 9:20 AM, Harish Narayanan wrote:
> On 8/23/10 9:17 AM, Harish Narayanan wrote:
>> On 8/23/10 4:21 AM, Anders Logg wrote:
>>> On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 09:09:50PM +0200, Anders Logg wrote:
>>>> On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 07:48:36PM +0100, Garth N. Wells wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 13:03 +0200, Anders Logg wrote:
>>>>>> Dorsal/DOLFIN/CMake seems to work fine now on Ubuntu Lucid, but it
>>>>>> still breaks on Mac (Snow Leopard) with some CGAL linking error.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The problem seems to be the way the flags are given to the linker.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Lucid, the following type of flags are given:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   -L/usr/lib/libCGAL.so
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This seems to work fine (although it looks wrong to me, the -L flag
>>>>>> should take a directory).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mac, the corresponding flag becomes:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   -L/opt/local/lib/libCGAL.dylib
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But then the linker complains that the path following -L is not a
>>>>>> directory. This explains why the CGAL stuff is missing when linking.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Anyone knows why CMake spits out things like -L/usr/lib/libCGAL.so,
>>>>>> why this works on Lucid and not Mac (probably different compilers) and
>>>>>> how to fix it?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> There was an error in dolfin/CMakeLists.txt. Try again now.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, that looks like it should fix the problem. Build in progress.
>>>
>>> Builds and runs fine now on Lucid and Snow Leopard, but Python is not
>>> building yet on Snow Leopard (haven't looked into why yet).
>>
>> I think I fixed it.
> 
> Or maybe not.

I think the problem is that CMake on Mac OS X is somehow linking to the
system Python, causing all sorts badness related to version
incompatibilities and crashiness when mixed with Python from MacPorts.

Harish