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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 12:33:20PM +0530, Harish Narayanan wrote:
> On 9/9/10 12:27 PM, Anders Logg wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 12:22:02PM +0530, Harish Narayanan wrote:
> >> On 9/9/10 12:04 PM, Harish Narayanan wrote:
> >>> On 9/3/10 8:04 PM, noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>> revno: 490
> >>>> committer: Garth N. Wells <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx>
> >>>> branch nick: dorsal
> >>>> timestamp: Fri 2010-09-03 15:32:16 +0100
> >>>> message:
> >>>>   Update to SLEPc 3.1-p2. (p1 is buggy).
> >>>> modified:
> >>>>   ChangeLog
> >>>>   FEniCS/packages/slepc.package
> >>>
> >>> Since this change, my local installation fails to find slepc.
> >>
> >> The problem is that the older link that the slepc package generates:
> >>
> >> package_specific_install () {
> >>     ln -sf ${PWD} ${INSTALL_PATH}/lib/slepc
> >> }
> >>
> >> doesn't get overwritten on installing a new version of slepc (even
> >> though there is a -sf). When I overwrite this manually to point to the
> >> new slepc folder, it works.
> >
> > That seems strange. Is ln broken on Mac?
> >
> > Do you know how to fix it?
>
> I don't think it is broken. I ran ln -sf manually and it worked.

Then why does it not work? If the script run ln -sf then that should
also work.

--
Anders