On Tue, February 19, 2008 Anders Logg wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 11:18:01AM +0000, Garth N. Wells wrote: >> >> >> Ola Skavhaug wrote: >> > Johannes Ring skrev den 19/02-2008 følgende: >> >> On Mon, Feb 18, Anders Logg wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 02:33:40PM +0000, Garth N. Wells wrote: >> >>>> This is good juncture at which re-focus on important goals for a >> >>>> hopefully not too distant next release. Three priorities that I see >> are: >> >>>> >> >>>> - New build system. >> >>> I think Johannes (http://simula.no/portal_memberdata/johannr) has >> >>> started looking at this. >> >> Unfortunately, I haven't had very much time to look at this lately. >> >> Hopefully I will get some time later this week so I can start working >> on >> >> this (if that is what Ola wants me to do). >> > >> > Sure, this is relatively high on the priority list. As a nice side >> effect, you >> > will become an expert SCons user, useful in lots of other projects :) >> > >> >> Give that a release has just been made, this could be a good moment to >> bite the bullet and implement the new build system in dolfin-dev, and >> accept that things will be broken for a little while. It would be good >> to have the build system largely sorted out before getting stuck into >> parallelisation. >> >> Garth > > Yes, it's the only way to get it tested. As long as the scons-based > DOLFIN is in a separate repository, it will be ignored by everyone. > > So let's break things as quickly as possible so we can fix them. > > Johannes, tell us as soon as you have something that "works" (for > you). Then everyone can take a quick look and if there are no > objections we push it to the main repository and work from there.
The SCons build system for DOLFIN should be in a more or less "working" state right now. I have updated the instructions at http://www.fenics.org/wiki/Compiling_DOLFIN_with_SCons Please, have a go! Johannes _______________________________________________ DOLFIN-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.fenics.org/mailman/listinfo/dolfin-dev
