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[Harish Narayanan <harish.mlists@xxxxxxxxx>]

I will go through and apply this patch. Thanks!

And the way you set a variable for all packages is to just set it in the
platform file.

Harish

On 6/18/11 9:26 AM, Johan Hake wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I have now instaled FEniCS (agian) on a CentOS5 using rhel5.platform as a 
> template. Attached is a diff that "worked" for me. Not sure why but several of 
> the suggested rmp packages were not available from CentOS yum so I had to add 
> them as packages for dorsal to install. That went smooth!
> 
> I installed most of the packages one by one, and I used python2.6, because I 
> needed that for other reasons. So the suggestion is not fool proofed...
> 
> I also added a bunch of packages to dorsal: sympy, matplotlib, cppunit, 
> ipython, python2.6
> 
> Most of these are not strictly needed by FEniCS but can be nice :) 
> 
> I also modified python and numpy by adding a shared lib option and a symlink. 
> 
> It would be cool if we were able to use PYTHONVER to set which Python version 
> is chosen. We need that variable set for the symlink in the numpy script. Not 
> exactly sure how the logic should work out. Someone with better Bash/Dorsal 
> skills might have suggestions. Maybe using some python2.X.package files which 
> get loaded dependent on the PYTHONVER variable? 
> 
> How can one set variables in on package file which should be looked for in 
> another file? For example we could hardcode PYTHONVER in the python2.X files 
> and then skip it as an option in the platform file, which I am using now.
> 
> Johan
> 
> 
> 
> 
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