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[Harish Narayanan <harish.mlists@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/10/11 5:17 PM, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.

Yes, and the RHEL5 platform is pretty close to a kitchen sink platform
already. :)

Harish