On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 12:50 AM, Jacobson, Clas A          UTRC
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> I have tried to install dolfin (fenics) from macports. I got stuck several
> times and now am stuck and do not see a way out. I could use some
> pointers/help here from the broader community
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> A couple of observations and then the actual error that I currently get:
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> 1. The process was (is) not smooth. Boost had a lot of issues when I tried
> to sudo port install dolfin- deciphering the log I loaded things differently
> (not at all sure that it worked right) and had to add some packages that
> were not listed as dependencies...but after 3-5 tries it went all the way
> through. I posted the log from the original problem on macports if someone
> is interested (sean@ was handling this for a few  iterations).
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> As a footnote its reasonable to ask "why do this?" and just use the binary.
> Well, I want to use a different python and would like to combine  things -
> Octave, PyDSTool, etc.
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> 2. Now, the demos don't run. Sean (@macports) apparently recognized the
> problem but did not seize it to run it to ground - the ticket remains open.
> I wonder if in the process of getting Python and others the swig versions
> got confused. In any case things don't work...
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> Clas
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> ----------------- current error on poisson.py posted on fenics q&a over the
> weekend (also on macports) -----------------------------
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> I have tried to install dolfin from macports. It got stuck - looking for
> "boost." I re-installed boost +mpich. I got all the way through compile.
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> Now, not all demos work. biharmonic and cahn-hilliard work fine.
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> poisson gives this error
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> class-mbp:~ clasajacobson$ python
> /opt/local/share/dolfin/demo/documented/poisson/python/demo_poisson.py
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> Calling FFC just-in-time (JIT) compiler, this may take some time.
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> Calling DOLFIN just-in-time (JIT) compiler, this may take some time.
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> Calling DOLFIN just-in-time (JIT) compiler, this may take some time.
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> Calling FFC just-in-time (JIT) compiler, this may take some time.
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> Calling FFC just-in-time (JIT) compiler, this may take some time.
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> Solving linear variational problem.
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> Traceback (most recent call last):
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> File
> "/opt/local/share/dolfin/demo/documented/poisson/python/demo_poisson.py",
> line 61, in solve(a == L, u, bc) File
> "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dolfin/fem/solving.py",
> line 268, in solve _solve_varproblem(*args, **kwargs) File
> "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dolfin/fem/solving.py",
> line 297, in _solve_varproblem
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> solver.solve()
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> TypeError: SWIG director type mismatch in output value of type 'bool'
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> I posted this on macports as a ticket and the response was to point to swig
> errors to the "fenics developers." Is this the right venue to get this
> resolved or some help here?

Yes, this is the correct forum, but I'm afraid I don't know how to
solve your problem. Does anybody else have any ideas?

Johannes

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