Hello, I wanted to send in my unsuccessful account of installing FEniCS with Dorsal, hopefully there can be someone who benefits from this.
My installation was attempted by updating mac ports and installing the list of ports requested by dorsal. The first problem I encountered was vtk-devel +python26 doesn't work for mac ports unless you are using the gcc originally installed by Apple (/usr/bin/g++-4.2). Second, petsc complained that fortran for mpi can't be used. At this point I tried out the openmpi ports project but that caused many headaches later. Perhaps setting --with-fortran=0 would be good here. Next, petsc could not link to metis correctly, turns out the octave port installed a older version of metis that was getting in the way. Finally, everything installs but when I run any demo, the demo runs then openmpi gives an error claiming 1) a system-required executable either could not be found and 2) mpi_init is called after finalize. I couldn't figure out what is going on here as the mpi init and finalize should be set correctly by the subsystem manager. The problem did not occur when running the Petsc demos. At this point I just installed everything by hand. Since Anders says things work, I wanted to make sure there was some knowledge of where things are breaking in the wild. If you want me to try something different for testing let me know. -- Andy _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dorsal Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dorsal More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
