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["Garth N. Wells" <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 20:51 +0200, Anders Logg wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 06:58:33PM +0200, Anders Logg wrote:
> > I'm now getting to the point where DOLFIN is building, but then at the
> > end I get this:
> >
> > Implicit dependency '/Users/log/Work/FEniCS/lib/libpetsc.a' not found,
> > needed by target 'dolfin/libdolfin.dylib'.
> >
> > Any ideas what goes wrong? The file in question seems to be a symlink
> > that points to itself (with an extra slash)...
> 
> I see more strange things.
> 
> If I look in the directory ~/Work/FEniCS/lib (default Dorsal
> installation location for libraries), there's a bunch of symlinks that
> point to themselves:
> 
>   libamd.a, libslepc.a, libpetsc.a, libumfpack.a
> 
> Any idea why this is so?
> 
> Is it a Mac thing or is it something with the PETSc/SLEPc
> configuration?
> 
> Here's how it's currently done:
> 
> 1. When PETSc is configured, it knows PETSC_DIR=pwd and it knows
> PETSC_ARCH=<some random darwin-blabla string>.
> 
> 2. When SLEPc is configured, it knows PETSC_DIR=INSTALL_PATH but it
> doesn't know PETSC_ARCH.
> 

Somewhat related, you could try the PETSc and SLEPc packages from
MacPorts. The down side is that the MacPorts version is not compiled
with UMFPACK, so there is not decent LU solver via PETSc. I imagine it
would be easy to add though since UMFPACK is in MacPorts.

Garth



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> Anders
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