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Re: SWIG Version 2.0 for DOLFIN

 

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Johan Hake <johan.hake@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Monday March 14 2011 05:38:25 Anders Logg wrote:
>> B1;2600;0cOn Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 01:34:19PM +0100, Johannes Ring wrote:
>> > On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Johannes Ring <johannr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Garth N. Wells <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> > >> On 14/03/11 09:32, Johannes Ring wrote:
>> > >>> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 5:00 AM, Johan Hake <johan.hake@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> > >>>> Hello!
>> > >>>>
>> > >>>> I have now removed all traces of SWIG code for version < 2.0.
>> > >>>> Unfortunately I have not been able to test it at my buildbot, as
>> > >>>> the versions has diverged, due to a previous merge gone wrong.
>> > >>>>
>> > >>>> Johannes could you make a new branch of dolfin at my buildbot from
>> > >>>>
>> > >>>>  lp:~dolfin-core/dolfin/hake
>> > >>>>
>> > >>>> and maybe push force build after that?
>> > >>>
>> > >>> Done.
>> > >>
>> > >> Have all the buildbots been updated to SWIG 2.0?
>> > >
>> > > No, I'm working on it. Only mac-osx and linux64-exp have SWIG 2.0 at
>> > > the moment.
>> >
>> > I have now upgraded SWIG to version 2.0 on the buildbots. The
>> > lucid-amd64 and maverick-i386 slaves, building dolfin-main, are using
>> > /usr/bin/swig2.0 from the Ubuntu package (backported from Natty),
>> > while the personal buildbots are using some locally installed SWIG.
>> >
>> > This results in errors like this on dolfin-main:
>> >   OSError: PyDOLFIN was not compiled with the present version of swig.
>> >   Install swig version 2.0.01 or recompiled PyDOLFIN with present swig
>>
>>                                            ~~~
>>
>> Don't know how to fix but there's a typo in there.
>
> He, he, do not think this is the cause of the problem.

No, but where does that extra zero come from?

>> --
>> Anders
>>
>> > How are we supposed to deal with this? I have used
>> > -DSWIG_EXECUTABLE:FILEPATH=/usr/bin/swig2.0 when building UFC and
>> > DOLFIN but how can this executable be specified when running the
>> > tests?
>
> This is done by setting:
>
>  parameters["swig_binary"] = "swig2.0"
>
> I addressed this problem a while ago. Not sure how to "fix" this. Either by
> setting a global parameters.xml file, if this is possible, or patch
> globalparameters.py where the parameter is added.

Yes, I remember that and I was looking at that post. We could rename
globalparameters.py to globalparameters.py.in and have CMake's
configure_file command generate globalparameters.py using the
SWIG_EXECUTABLE variable. I can do that if it sounds okay.

Johannes



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