[dune-pdelab] Two problems with installation of pdelab-howto

[Steffen Müthing]

Hi Andrea,

I'm using Dune (the trunk of both the core modules and PDELab) on OS X
10.6. In principle, it should also work on 10.5, but you might run into some
incompatibilities with regard to the toolchain (in particular, I would advise
you to switch to either the Apple-supplied GCC 4.2 or use MacPorts to install
a more recent compiler. The last one is probably a lot more robust anyway,
especially when you aren't using pregenerated packages, since that gets you
much more recent versions of the autotools (automake, autoconf etc.) used
during the build process. I also remember some problem with libtool - I had
to install that from MacPorts, which calls the binaries glibtool and glibtoolize,
which required a small change in dune-common for me somewhere. I can look
it up, but I don't have much time this week, because I am at a conference.

In summary: Try running it on top of MacPorts!

Steffen

> 
> 
> Am 01.11.2011 um 17:45 schrieb Christian Engwer:
> 
>> Dear Andrea,
>> 
>> the "trunk" is the development version. It is not intended for the
>> average enduser... only use it, if you have a good reason.
>> 
>> 2.1snapshot is a snapshot version which is compatible the 2.1 release
>> of dune.
>> 
>> I know people are using Dune on Mac OS X, so there shouldn't be any
>> general problem. The main question is which compiler etc. you are
>> using.
>> 
>> Perhaps it is best to first try build ing the dune core modules and
>> then start with pdelab. If you experience further problems please send
>> us a detailed problem report, including the versions of the programs
>> in use, the versions of the dune modules and the log files (especially
>> the config.log of the module which fails).
>> 
>> Christian
>> 
>> On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 04:25:46PM +0000, Sacconi, Andrea wrote:
>>> Dear users,
>>> 
>>> I have been struggling with installation of pdelab and pdelab-howto for ten days.
>>> Before reporting again error messages that appear on my screen, I'd like to ask you two things:
>>> 
>>> 1) has anybody encountered problems in installing pdelab and pdelab-howto with MAC OS X (in particular, mine is 10.5.8)?
>>> 
>>> 2) what is the difference between "trunk" and "snapshot 2.1" on the page:
>>> http://www.dune-project.org/pdelab/
>>> Which version should I download ??? Since I tried either the first or the second, but nothing works properly.
>>> 
>>> Thank you so much.
>>> Cheers,
>>> 
>>> Andrea
>> 
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> Steffen Müthing
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Steffen Müthing
Universität Stuttgart
Institut für Parallele und Verteilte Systeme
Universitätsstr. 38
70569 Stuttgart
Tel: +49 711 685 88429
Fax: +49 711 685 88340
Email: steffen.muething at ipvs.uni-stuttgart.de