Neil Hopcroft

As I mentioned before the fem-fenics package requires its own whole set of dependencies, a number of which are available on the fenics website. The octave package is an octave interface onto the fenics project, so to test it we need to install fenics.

• To install the octave fem-fenics package we first need to build the code in the fem-fenics/src directory. This causes a configure error
• “error: dolfin required to install Fem-fenics Package”.

build dolfin package

• Building the dolfin package:
• “Unable to find the requested Boost libraries.”

sudo yum install boost-devel

• “Could not find a configuration file for package UFC that is compatible with requested version 1.6.0.”

build ffc package, which includes the now-deprecated UFC package

• “Could NOT find Eigen3”

build eigen package

• “Could NOT find PythonLibs”

I changed python symlink to point to 2.7.9 while python2 symlink remained linked to 2.6.9.

• “ImportError: No module named ufl.log”

build ufl package

• “ImportError: No module named FIAT.functional”

build fiat package

• “ImportError: No module named instant”

build instant package

• “CholmodCholeskySolver.cpp:97:17: error: ‘SuiteSparse_long’ was not declared in this scope”

Update SuiteSparse to the latest version

• Building the ffc package:
• “Python 2.7 or higher required, please upgrade.”

Switched symlinks to 2.7

• “Unable to find SWIG version 3.0.3 or higher.”

build the swig package

• Building the swig package:
• “yodl2man: Command not found”

Install yodl, which requires icmake to build

• Building the eigen3 package:

…there are a number of optional packages, which may be required for other packages, so we’ll need a rebuild once everything else is building

• Building the ufl package:

…builds without error

• Building the fiat package:

…builds without error

• Building the instant package:

…builds without error

• Building the SuiteSparse package:
• “/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lopenblas”

Install the latest OpenBLAS package