[Users] Issues getting Einstein Toolkit built on Scientific Linux 6

Erik Schnetter schnetter at cct.lsu.edu
Tue Dec 11 13:08:47 CST 2012


Barry

The option list still assumes that HDF5 has been installed manually into
/opt/hdf5/1.8.7. If this option list is supposed to be easy to use, I would
remove this, and let Cactus build HDF5.

-erik



On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Barry Wardell <barry.wardell at gmail.com>wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Frank Loeffler <knarf at cct.lsu.edu> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 03:56:08PM -0600, Frank Loeffler wrote:
>> > Try installing the gsl-devel package. This should have been caught by
>> > the GSL configuration script though.
>>
>> Having said that, sl6.cfg specifies a GSL dir (and sets it to /usr).
>> I don't think this is a good idea. If gsl is installed in /usr the
>> configure script should be able to find it (and catch your problem) and
>> then build the included gsl version. Should this definition be removed
>> or is there a reason for it to be there?
>>
>
> You're right. It's probably better to not have it in there in case the
> user doesn't have the gsl-devel package installed. I have removed this (and
> some other similarly unnecessary options) from the optionlist. I also fixed
> a bug in the optionlist which prevented it from working with fortran code.
>
> Joe, can you try the latest sl6.cfg and see if that now works for you?
>
> Barry
>
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