Oh, by the way, I forgot to mention: this build is with development
versions of packages, rather than the stable package versions.

Cheers,

Geoff


On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 1:07 AM, Geoff Oxberry <[email protected]> wrote:

> Garth,
>
> Here's more progress: now FEniCS builds. I have to build quite a bit with
> GCC 4.8; I've attached the local.platform file I've been using, which is by
> no means minimal. There are a few Dorsal packages for which I've written
> custom package files, and I've updated 8 or 9 more. Once I figure all of
> this out, I'll submit pull requests to upstream.
>
> I figured out that GCC 4.8 is used consistently, provided I make sure to
> clean up previous builds by deleting the FEniCS build directory. The only
> other exception is PETSc, which still uses Clang++ for some reason, and
> I'll have to figure that out later.
>
> Now, when I run demo_poisson.py, I get the following run-time error:
>
> ratatoskr:~ goxberry$ env CXX=g++-4.8 python
> FEniCS/src/dolfin/demo/documented/poisson/python/demo_poisson.py
> Calling FFC just-in-time (JIT) compiler, this may take some time.
> Calling DOLFIN just-in-time (JIT) compiler, this may take some time.
> Calling DOLFIN just-in-time (JIT) compiler, this may take some time.
> Calling FFC just-in-time (JIT) compiler, this may take some time.
> Calling FFC just-in-time (JIT) compiler, this may take some time.
> Solving linear variational problem.
> python(18194,0x7fff7c323180) malloc: *** error for object 0x7fff7bc60570:
> pointer being freed was not allocated
> *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
> [ratatoskr:18194] *** Process received signal ***
> [ratatoskr:18194] Signal: Abort trap: 6 (6)
> [ratatoskr:18194] Signal code:  (0)
> [ratatoskr:18194] *** End of error message ***
> Abort trap: 6
>
> The Dorsal platform file is attached; of particular note is that I build a
> Python 2.7.2 interpreter through Dorsal (the python-osx package is a minor
> hack that sets PYTHON_LIBRARY to have a .dylib extension instead of an .so
> extension). Any ideas of what I may want to look at for debugging?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Geoff
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Geoff Oxberry <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Garth,
>>
>> Thank you for the reply. I wish I could upgrade, but for the time being,
>> work policy is to use 10.8.5.
>>
>> One potential fix is to use Dorsal to build enough dependencies of
>> FEniCS-dev with g++ 4.8, which will use the right standard library, and
>> should be able to link to existing software on my machine built with
>> clang++ and libstdc++.
>>
>> What I've done so far is:
>>
>> - built a separate Python 2.7 virtualenv via gcc 4.8, so pip & setup.py
>> should preferentially use GCC 4.8 for building Python packages. Compile
>> logs for packages installed via pip indicate that this premise has borne
>> out so far
>> - set environment variables in a local.platform file for Dorsal so that:
>> CC and CXX equal gcc-4.8 and g++4.8, respectively. I've also set
>> OMPI_CC=gcc-4.8, OMPI_CXX=g++-4.8, and OMPI_FC=gfortran, as in the
>> mountainlion.platform file set up in Dorsal.
>> - I make Dorsal build many dependencies, notably: Open MPI, and anything
>> that looks like it will use an MPI wrapper compiler (boost, parmetis,
>> mpi4py, petsc, petsc4py, slepc, scotch).
>> - Then it should build FEniCS-dev.
>>
>> Where I get stuck is that it seems that Dorsal uses GCC 4.8
>> inconsistently -- possibly not at all -- in the build process, because I'm
>> still getting clang errors re: shared_ptr. The theory behind having Dorsal
>> build Open MPI, etc., is that it will use libraries it builds
>> preferentially, and will sandbox the installs, so building Open MPI via
>> Dorsal should build an Open MPI wrapper compiler for GCC 4.8 localized to
>> FEniCS. I would rather avoid building libraries by hand, or using Homebrew
>> to build libraries using GCC 4.8, if possible.
>>
>> Any help on getting Dorsal to recognize the right compiler or correct my
>> misunderstandings so far would be much appreciated.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Geoff
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 5:29 AM, Garth N. Wells <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On 26 Mar 2014, at 08:55, Geoff Oxberry <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> > I have a similar error to a user who wrote in 2014-03-03 (see
>>> https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00366.html
>>> ):
>>> >
>>> > Traceback (most recent call last):
>>> >   File "demo_poisson.py", line 41, in <module>
>>> >     V = FunctionSpace(mesh, "Lagrange", 1)
>>> >   File
>>> "~/FEniCS/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dolfin/functions/functionspace.py",
>>> > line 403, in __init__
>>> >     FunctionSpaceBase.__init__(self, mesh, element, constrained_domain)
>>> >   File "
>>> >
>>> ~/FEniCS/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dolfin/functions/functionspace.py",
>>> >
>>> > line 84, in __init__
>>> >     ufc_element, ufc_dofmap = jit(self._ufl_element)
>>> >   File "
>>> > ~/FEniCS/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dolfin/compilemodules/jit.py",
>>> line
>>> >
>>> > 60, in mpi_jit
>>> >     return local_jit(*args, **kwargs)
>>> >   File "
>>> > ~/FEniCS/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dolfin/compilemodules/jit.py",
>>> line
>>> >
>>> > 122, in jit
>>> >     return jit_compile(form, parameters=p, common_cell=common_cell)
>>> > TypeError: jit() got an unexpected keyword argument 'common_cell'
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > In the same thread, Anders Logg suggested updating DOLFIN, UFL, and
>>> FFC. I installed everything through Dorsal; to my knowledge, each package
>>> is at the most recent stable version. If you let me know which files to
>>> send, I can send build logs.
>>> >
>>> > I've also tried using Dorsal to build the development versions of
>>> these packages. On OS X with Homebrew and LLVM 3.3, there seems to be an
>>> issue with the development version of FFC; clang++ throws a number of
>>> errors related to std::shared_ptr (in SWIG-generated interfaces) that have
>>> to do with the version of libstdc++ clang++ is using. If I compile and link
>>> with libc++ instead, those problems go away, but linking errors occur (with
>>> Boost; rebuilding Boost with libc++ does not seem to work either).
>>> >
>>> > Are there other ways to resolve this problem while still building with
>>> Homebrew?
>>> >
>>>
>>> I don't think any developers use (or have access to) OS X 10.8, so it
>>> all be hard for us to fix. I build the FEniCS dev versions on OSX 10.9 with
>>> Xcode 5.1 without problems. I install via Homebrew all the dependencies
>>> that are available in Homebrew, except PETSc which I choose to build myself.
>>>
>>> Garth
>>>
>>>
>>> > Cheers,
>>> >
>>> > Geoff
>>> > _______________________________________________
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>>> > [email protected]
>>> > http://fenicsproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fenics-support
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Geoffrey Oxberry, Ph.D., E.I.T.
>> [email protected]
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Geoffrey Oxberry, Ph.D., E.I.T.
> [email protected]
>



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