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[Andre Massing <massing@xxxxxxxxx>]

 Hi!

Den 07.10.10 23.29, skrev Andy Ray Terrel:
> 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).
Hmm, that sounds like a pure macport issue. BTW, do we need really 
vtk-devel? I just used
vtk5 (which went fine) since there were also the problem to get mayavi 
compiled while having installed vtk-devel.
> 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.
Are you using the latest dorsal? Because of the issues the snow-leopard 
platform uses
(temporarly until this is fixed) a *petsccore* package
file to avoid the headache with openmpi fortran and petsc...
> 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.
No idea about that.

ATM, I am also experimenting on my Mac to get things with openmpi and 
petsc a little bit further ...
Not a success story so far ...

--
Andre

> 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
>
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