[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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!
>

Nice. Just a few things so far:

- My umfpack is not being detected (I'm using Ubuntu 7.10 and it's under 
'suitesparse').

- Could we print some tips at the end for setting the library path, 
similar to what was written to dolfin.conf?

Garth

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