dorsal team mailing list archive

[Harish Narayanan <harish.mlists@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/18/10 10:41 AM, Johannes Ring wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Peter Monk <nibj@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi
>> I am trying to install on a mac with snow leopard 10.6.4 and gcc 4.2.1 (also ifort 11.1) and up to date macports using dorsal-0.8.1.
>>
>> The build went without obvious problems.
>>
>> So I tried
>>
>> python demo.py
>>
>> in the pde/poisson demo and I get
>>
>>> lindv9:python monk$ !py
>>> python demo.py
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>> File "demo.py", line 22, in <module>
>>>   from dolfin import *
>>> File "/Users/monk/FEniCS/lib/python2.6/site-packages/dolfin/__init__.py", line 13, in <module>
>>>   import dolfin.cpp as cpp
>>> File "/Users/monk/FEniCS/lib/python2.6/site-packages/dolfin/cpp.py", line 28, in <module>
>>>   _cpp = swig_import_helper()
>>> File "/Users/monk/FEniCS/lib/python2.6/site-packages/dolfin/cpp.py", line 24, in swig_import_helper
>>>   _mod = imp.load_module('_cpp', fp, pathname, description)
>>> ImportError: dlopen(/Users/monk/FEniCS/lib/python2.6/site-packages/dolfin/_cpp.so, 2): Symbol not found: _METIS_mCPartGraphRecursive2
>>> Referenced from: /Users/monk/FEniCS/src/petsc-3.1-p4/darwin10.0.0-cxx-opt/lib/libpetsc.dylib
>>> Expected in: flat namespace
>>> in /Users/monk/FEniCS/src/petsc-3.1-p4/darwin10.0.0-cxx-opt/lib/libpetsc.dylib
> 
> Your problem seems very similar to what is described in this thread:
> 
>   https://lists.launchpad.net/dorsal/msg00394.html
> 
> Try to add
> 
>   CONFOPTS="-DMETIS_LIBRARY=${INSTALL_PATH}/lib/libmetis.a"
> 
> in FEniCS/packages/dolfin.package and re-run Dorsal.

Johannes, will it break anything if I made this the default in Dorsal?
(As in will this option be overwritten if libmetis exists elsewhere on
other platforms?)

Harish