Re: [FORGE] Fem-fenics installation fails

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 8:01 PM, Juan Pablo Carbajal
<address@hidden> wrote:
> With Fenics 1.3.0 installed from PPA on Ubuntu 13.10 amd64
> and with
> $> locate dolfin.h
> /usr/include/dolfin.h
>
> The installation in Octave gives
> octave-cli-3.8.0:1> pkg -forge install fem-fenics
> configure: error: dolfin required to install Msh Package
> [...]
> checking dolfin.h usability... no
> checking dolfin.h presence... no
> checking for dolfin.h... no
>
> pkg: error running the configure script for fem-fenics.
> error: called from 'configure_make' in file
> /usr/local/share/octave/3.8.0/m/pkg/private/configure_make.m near line
> 72, column 9
> error: called from:
> error:   /usr/local/share/octave/3.8.0/m/pkg/private/install.m at line
> 199, column 5
> error:   /usr/local/share/octave/3.8.0/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 394, column 9
>
> I guess some environment variable should be defined. I couldn't find
> help in the fem-fenics manual.
>
> Any clues?

In addition the msh package also fails to find the dolfin
installation. I tried to look in to the source of the package and
found that there is a automatically generated configure script (!).
Where are the sources that generated that script? Clearly the
offending lines are in the "ac_fn_cxx_check_header_mongrel "$LINENO"
"dolfin.h" " command, but I cannot decipher this part.

Maybe there are betters ways to check if fenics is installed?