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["Johannes Ring" <johannr@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, September 11, 2008 21:12, Johannes Ring wrote:
> On Thu, September 11, 2008 20:01, kent-and@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> For some time ago Kent asked me to switch the build-system for SyFi
>>> from
>>> autotools to a SCons based build-system (as we did for DOLFIN earlier
>>> this
>>> year). Finally, I have something that works for me and that I think is
>>> ready for testing by others.
>>>
>>> To make the transition easier for me, I took the freedom to restructure
>>> the folders and moving things around a bit. If you don't like it, feel
>>> free to do it your way or tell me and I will try to make some changes.
>>>
>>> If you would like to test, here is what you got to do:
>>>
>>> 1. Clone syfi-scons from the repository located at
>>> http://www.fenics.org/hg/dev/syfi-scons. This will create a new folder
>>> syfi-scons. Create an environment variable SYFIUPDATES that points to
>>> this
>>> folder.
>>>
>>> 2. Clone a fresh copy of the SyFi hg repository and move into the newly
>>> created folder. Copy the $SYFIUPDATES/syfi_reorganizer.sh script into
>>> this
>>> folder and execute it.
>>>
>>> 3. Run 'scons' to compile and 'scons install prefix=<some_prefix>' to
>>> install (you will need the latest simula-scons in PYTHONPATH).
>>>
>>> Here is an example that works for me:
>>>
>>> cd /tmp
>>> mkdir src
>>> cd src
>>> hg clone http://www.fenics.org/hg/dev/syfi-scons
>>> export SYFIUPDATES=`pwd`/syfi-scons
>>> svn co https://svn.simula.no:40081/int/sc/simula-scons/simula_scons
>>> export PYTHONPATH=`pwd`:$PYTHONPATH
>>> hg clone http://www.fenics.org/hg/syfi
>>> cd syfi
>>> cp $SYFIUPDATES/syfi_reorganizer.sh .
>>> ./syfi_reorganizer.sh
>>> scons
>>> scons install prefix=`pwd`/local
>>> scons enableTests=1
>>> scons enableDocs=1
>>>
>>> Note: I take no responsibility for any loss of data, so please back up
>>> your data before running the syfi_reorganizer.sh script.
>>>
>>> Any comments or suggestions are welcome.
>>>
>>> Johannes
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> Great work! It seems to work but I have not looked closely yet.
>>
>> Questions:
>> Does scons generate a 'file' from a 'file.in' ?
>
> Not as far as I know. I have to do it manually (in the top-level
> SConstruct file). Not very nice since it is done every time you run scons.
>
>> Where did syfi.conf go ? I don't see anyting about this
>> in the syfi_reorganizer.sh script (what other things are happening).
>
> I think that syfi.conf was generated by the autotools build-system. I will
> modify SConstruct such that a similar file is created (as in DOLFIN).

Done.

>> Will simula_scons then be place under scons as in dolfin ? I assume
>> simula_scons is pretty stable since that can be done.
>
> Yes, we probably have to do that since simula-scons isn't available for
> download for other than people at Simula at the moment.

Done.

Johannes

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