I still have this problem - is there anyone who has successfully installed from 
macports on os x? 

I cannot decode this error and am currently stuck.

Thanks

Clas A. Jacobson
Chief Scientist
United Technologies Systems & Controls Engineering
[email protected] 
860.610.7652 (office)
860.830.4151 (mobile)

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
Johannes Ring
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2014 6:24 AM
To: Jacobson, Clas A UTRC
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [External] Re: [FEniCS-support] problem installing dolfin from macports

On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 12:50 AM, Jacobson, Clas A          UTRC
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
> A couple of observations and then the actual error that I currently get:
>
>
>
> 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).
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> 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...
>
>
>
> Clas
>
>
>
> ----------------- current error on poisson.py posted on fenics q&a 
> over the weekend (also on macports) -----------------------------
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> Now, not all demos work. biharmonic and cahn-hilliard work fine.
>
>
>
> poisson gives this error
>
>
>
> class-mbp:~ clasajacobson$ python
> /opt/local/share/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.
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>
> File
> "/opt/local/share/dolfin/demo/documented/poisson/python/demo_poisson.p
> y",
> line 61, in solve(a == L, u, bc) File
> "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/pytho
> n2.7/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/pytho
> n2.7/site-packages/dolfin/fem/solving.py",
> line 297, in _solve_varproblem
>
> solver.solve()
>
> TypeError: SWIG director type mismatch in output value of type 'bool'
>
>
>
> 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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> Clas A. Jacobson
>
> Chief Scientist
>
> United Technologies Systems & Controls Engineering
>
> [email protected]
>
> 860.610.7652 (office)
>
> 860.830.4151 (mobile)
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