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

On 18/05/10 09:32, Johannes Ring wrote:
> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Garth N. Wells<gnw20@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> > On May 18 2010, Johannes Ring wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > See this bug report:
> > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=581897
> > >
> > > Does FFC require DOLFIN?
> >
> > Only when using the '-l dolfin' flag.
> >
> > We should add a more informative error message.
>
> When DOLFIN is not available and I run
>
>    ffc -l dolfin -r quadrature SteadyStokes.ufl
>
> like in the bug report above, I get
>
>    Unable to generate DOLFIN wrappers, missing module dolfin_utils.wrappers.
>
>    *** FFC: Unable to generate DOLFIN wrappers, missing module
> dolfin_utils.wrappers.
>    *** FFC: To get more information about this error, rerun FFC with --debug.
>
> which I think is a okay error message.

We can add a bit more to the message, e.g. suggest installing DOLFIN.

> If I rerun FFC with the --debug
> flag, I get the same error message as in the bug report.
>
> Maybe the best and simplest solution is to add python-dolfin as a
> recommendation or a suggestion in the python-ffc package.

Sounds good.

Garth

> Johannes
>
> > Garth
> >
> >
> > > Is it only dolfin_utils that is required? If
> > > so, maybe there should be a separate package python-dolfin-utils in
> > > Debian and let python-ffc depend on this package?
> > >
> > > Johannes
> > >
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