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[Peter Monk <nibj@xxxxxx>]

Thank you everyone who has addressed my question.  I regret that the fixes do not seem to work.  Here is what I did:

1) I deleted all of macports and the ported software following the uninstall directions in macports documentation (the idea being to start as close as possible to my friend's computer that successfully installed FEniCS).

2) I reinstalled a new version macports and  installed only  what is needed by dorsal.  This failed because swig-python has a bug that doesn't install pcre.  Porting pcre  and then swig-python fixes that problem.  

3) I edited platforms/supported/snowleopard.platform and added

default LAPACKANDBLAS_DIR=/opt/intel/Compiler/11.1/088/Frameworks/mkl/Libraries/em64t

to try to get a good LAPACK and BLAS

4) I edited packages/dolfin.package and dolfin-stable.package as suggested by Dr Ring and added

CONFOPTS="-DMETIS_LIBRARY=${INSTALL_PATH}/lib/libmetis.a"

5) I reinstalled a fresh version of FEniCS

6) I then got the following error message during the configuring of petsc

> Building petsc-3.1-p4
> ===============================================================================
>              Configuring PETSc to compile on your system                       
> ===============================================================================
> ===============================================================================
>                  WARNING! Compiling PETSc with no debugging, this should
>                                only be done for timing and production runs. All developme
>                       be done when configured using --with-debugging=1          =============================================================================== 
> TESTING: FortranMPICheck from config.packages.MPI(config/BuildSystem/config/pack
> *******************************************************************************
>          UNABLE to CONFIGURE with GIVEN OPTIONS    (see configure.log for details):
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Fortran error! mpif.h could not be located at: [ ]
> *
Thats odd because mpif.h exists in petsc's own directory structure but the location seems empty....

7) So I  installed openmpi using macports (I need this for another project anyway).  I note that by this time there are metis libraries in /opt/local/lib and in ~/FEniCS/lib.  Then I remade a fresh version of FEniCS.  This time dorsal.sh completed without an obvious failure. I tried the poisson demo in python and got

> Peter-Monks-MacBook:python monk$ python demo.pyTraceback (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

So I regret that the suggested fixes don't seem to work.  The problem seems to center around petsc. 

Thanks again
Peter