On 6/10/11 5:17 PM, Garth N. Wells wrote: > > > On 10/06/11 16:14, Johan Hake wrote: >> On Friday June 10 2011 03:10:07 Harish Narayanan wrote: >>> On 6/6/11 7:53 PM, Johan Hake wrote: >>>> Hello! >>>> >>>> I am using dorsal to compile FEniCS on a CentOS5.5 system. Not so fun >>>> actually... But I am gettnig there! >>> >>> But thanks for trying! RHEL is the reason Dorsal was born 4 years ago. >>> >>> Please submit an updated platform file when you are done. I am sure >>> there are plenty users still on this old OS. >> >> Hmm, while I am finished with the FEniCS installation on the cluster I have >> totally forgotten the path I needed to take. It was an iteration between yum >> - >> install, dorsal install and manually compiling stuff, which dorsal did not >> manage to install. I am not sure I am able to backtrack that. >> >> I think some packages had problems detecting the dorsal installed Boost. I >> also had to disable OpenMP in DOLFIN, but I guess I could just add that >> package to the platform file. >> >> That said, I will soon try to install FEniCS on another (!?) CentOS, so I >> might be able to do it in one go. Also I think CentOS does not ship all >> packages that RHEL 5 ship. I was for example not able to install some of the >> packages mentioned in the RHEL file. >> > > What would be good is a 'kitchen sync' platform that installs almost > everything, since even on clusters with recent distributions cluster > users can't install packages.
Yes, and the RHEL5 platform is pretty close to a kitchen sink platform already. :) Harish _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dorsal Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dorsal More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
