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[Johan Hake <johan.hake@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday May 18 2010 02:02:19 Garth N. Wells wrote:
> 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.

Not sure how this adds up to a debian package, but the dolfin_utils can be 
installed without the PyDOLFIN option in SCons. What I mean is that optimally 
should dolfin_utils be installed together with the ordinary dolfin packages. A 
person should be able to install dolfin without python-dolfin.

Johan

> 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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