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[Andre Massing <massing@xxxxxxxxx>]

 Den 08.10.10 00.06, skrev Andy Ray Terrel:
> 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
Yes, that true. Funny thing btw, I just checked versions right now, and 
back in the days, vtk-devel
was more recent branch than vtk5, but now vtk-devel refers still to 
5.4.2,  but vtk5 to 5.6.0.
Maybe instructions can be updated in dorsal to make vtk5 the default.
> > > 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.
That is strange, because in the petsccore package description in dorsal 
there is no --with-hypre etc. configure flags
(as Anders wrote).
> > > 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.
I just ran in the same issues last night :) Thank you that you hit it 
first ;)

> > > 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)?
Thanks for the pointer! I get a little  bit confused about all the 
different fortran bindings in the macport mpich2 and openmpi variants,
and it not clear to me, what their implication are...
Following (almost) it, I installed mpich with the +g95 variant and 
dorsal compiled smoothly petsc using
the *petsc* description including hypre. But dolfing does not find PETSC 
any more, since
the PETSC_TEST_RUNS failed within FindPETSc.cmake.
Just testing testing the +gcc44 variant now and debugging cmake..
 @Anders, Garth and Co. : Is there an option flag in cmake to make the 
configuration process more verbose?

--
Andre
> > --
> > 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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