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["Garth N. Wells" <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/06/11 16:14, Johan Hake wrote:
> On Friday June 10 2011 03:10:07 Harish Narayanan wrote:
>> On 6/6/11 7:53 PM, Johan Hake wrote:
>>> Hello!
>>>
>>> I am using dorsal to compile FEniCS on a CentOS5.5 system. Not so fun
>>> actually... But I am gettnig there!
>>
>> But thanks for trying! RHEL is the reason Dorsal was born 4 years ago.
>>
>> Please submit an updated platform file when you are done. I am sure
>> there are plenty users still on this old OS.
> 
> Hmm, while I am finished with the FEniCS installation on the cluster I have 
> totally forgotten the path I needed to take. It was an iteration between yum -
> install, dorsal install and manually compiling stuff, which dorsal did not 
> manage to install. I am not sure I am able to backtrack that. 
> 
> I think some packages had problems detecting the dorsal installed Boost. I 
> also had to disable OpenMP in DOLFIN, but I guess I could just add that 
> package to the platform file. 
> 
> That said, I will soon try to install FEniCS on another (!?) CentOS, so I 
> might be able to do it in one go. Also I think CentOS does not ship all 
> packages that RHEL 5 ship. I was for example not able to install some of the 
> packages mentioned in the RHEL file.
> 

What would be good is a 'kitchen sync' platform that installs almost
everything, since even on clusters with recent distributions cluster
users can't install packages.

Garth


> Johan
> 
>> Harsih
>>
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