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

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Andre Massing <massing@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  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.

I'm up for using vtk5 instead, the instructions say 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...

Yup. I'm not sure why my box picked up needing a fortran for mpi but it did.

>>
>> 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 ...

Have you tried using mpich2 +gcc44 (the variants compile a fortran mpi)?


>
> --
> 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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