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[Harish Narayanan <harish.mlists@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/9/10 12:50 PM, Anders Logg wrote:
> 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.

I don't know.

Harish