On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Andre Massing <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > Den 07.10.10 23.29, skrev Andy Ray Terrel: >> >> 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). > > Hmm, that sounds like a pure macport issue. BTW, do we need really > vtk-devel? I just used > vtk5 (which went fine) since there were also the problem to get mayavi > compiled while having installed vtk-devel.
I'm up for using vtk5 instead, the instructions say vtk-devel >> >> 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. > > Are you using the latest dorsal? Because of the issues the snow-leopard > platform uses > (temporarly until this is fixed) a *petsccore* package > file to avoid the headache with openmpi fortran and petsc... Yup. I'm not sure why my box picked up needing a fortran for mpi but it did. >> >> 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. > > No idea about that. > > ATM, I am also experimenting on my Mac to get things with openmpi and petsc > a little bit further ... > Not a success story so far ... Have you tried using mpich2 +gcc44 (the variants compile a fortran mpi)? > > -- > Andre > >> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dorsal > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dorsal > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dorsal Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dorsal More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
