Mike, thanks for the suggestions. The VM works great.

On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Mike Welland <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Scott, I feel your pain! I tried building FEniCS 1.4.0 on mac 10.7.5
> and gave up after no luck for too long. I started running into similar
> problems due to having installed some things (python things) through
> macports that somehow weren't being recognised or something like that.
>
> As a stopgap, have you tried just installing the binary packages? Either
> 1.4.0 or the earlier ones?
>
> Alternately, maybe you can look at some alternate methods to install:
>
> https://bitbucket.org/garth-wells/fenics-virtual/src/4efc1c04b8c83b50497d2c1e7d239019bd429569/vagrant/
>
> Maybe someone with more experience can comment on speed comparisons..?
>
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Scott J Maddox <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> I'm having a lot of difficulty getting dolfin to work on Mac OS X 10.9.5.
>> I've tried the 1.4.0 release, and I was able to get everything built and
>> installed, but then I get the following error when trying to run an example:
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> $ python demo_poisson.py
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>
>>   File "demo_poisson.py", line 37, in <module>
>>
>>     from dolfin import *
>>
>>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dolfin/__init__.py", line
>> 4, in <module>
>>
>>     import dolfin.importhandler
>>
>>   File
>> "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dolfin/importhandler/__init__.py",
>> line 39, in <module>
>>
>>     __import__(dep)
>>
>>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ffc/__init__.py", line 18,
>> in <module>
>>
>>     from ffc.compiler import compile_form, compile_element
>>
>>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ffc/compiler.py", line
>> 127, in <module>
>>
>>     from ffc.analysis import analyze_forms, analyze_elements
>>
>>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ffc/analysis.py", line 42,
>> in <module>
>>
>>     from ffc.quadratureelement import default_quadrature_degree
>>
>>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ffc/quadratureelement.py",
>> line 27, in <module>
>>
>>     from FIAT.functional import PointEvaluation
>>
>>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/FIAT/__init__.py", line
>> 11, in <module>
>>
>>     from FIAT.finite_element import FiniteElement
>>
>>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/FIAT/finite_element.py",
>> line 19, in <module>
>>
>>     from .polynomial_set import PolynomialSet
>>
>>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/FIAT/polynomial_set.py",
>> line 29, in <module>
>>
>>     from . import expansions
>>
>>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/FIAT/expansions.py", line
>> 34, in <module>
>>
>>     """)
>>
>> Exception: Unable to import the Python Scientific module required by FIAT.
>>
>> Consider installing the package python-scientific.
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> ScientificPython is installed, but it must be the wrong version or
>> something. If I look in
>> "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/FIAT/expansions.py", line 34, it's
>> trying to import "Scientific.Functions.Derivatives", which, if run in
>> ipython, fails with the following error:
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> In [*6*]: import Scientific.Functions.Derivatives
>>
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> ImportError                               Traceback (most recent call
>> last)
>>
>> <ipython-input-6-5c7824801f99> in <module>()
>>
>> ----> 1 import Scientific.Functions.Derivatives
>>
>> /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Scientific/Functions/Derivatives.py
>> in <module>()
>>
>> /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Scientific/N.py in <module>()
>>
>> ImportError: No module named Scientific_numerics_package_id
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> This is with numpy-1.8.2, which still has the oldnumeric package, so I
>> have no idea what the problem is.
>>
>> I tried using the developer version, but there are compilation issues
>> (cmake puts the build files in the dolfin source directory even if you run
>> it from a separate build directory, and then it complains about not being
>> able to copy into the dolfin source directory)
>>
>> I'm at a complete loss of what to try next. I've probably spent ~20 hours
>> trying to get this working, to no avail. Any help would be greatly
>> appreciated.
>>
>> --
>> Scott J. Maddox
>> Ph.D. Candidate
>> Electrical and Computer Engineering
>> The University of Texas at Austin
>> office: (512) 471-9669
>> mobile: (817) 689-5263
>> email: [email protected]
>> web: http://lase.ece.utexas.edu/
>>
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Scott J. Maddox
Ph.D. Candidate
Electrical and Computer Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin
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email: [email protected]
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