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[Andy Ray Terrel <andy.terrel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I wanted to send in my unsuccessful account of installing FEniCS with
Dorsal, hopefully there can be someone who benefits from this.

My installation was attempted by updating mac ports and installing the
list of ports requested by dorsal.

The first problem I encountered was vtk-devel +python26 doesn't work
for mac ports unless you are using the gcc originally installed by
Apple (/usr/bin/g++-4.2).

Second, petsc complained that fortran for mpi can't be used.  At this
point I tried out the openmpi ports project but that caused many
headaches later.  Perhaps setting --with-fortran=0 would be good here.

Next, petsc could not link to metis correctly, turns out the octave
port installed a older version of metis that was getting in the way.

Finally, everything installs but when I run any demo, the demo runs
then openmpi gives an error claiming 1) a system-required executable
either could not be found and 2) mpi_init is called after finalize.  I
couldn't figure out what is going on here as the mpi init and finalize
should be set correctly by the subsystem manager.  The problem did not
occur when running the Petsc demos.

At this point I just installed everything by hand. Since Anders says
things work, I wanted to make sure there was some knowledge of where
things are breaking in the wild.  If you want me to try something
different for testing let me know.

-- Andy