Re: configure.ac and Dolfin.h

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 10:17 AM, c. <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 5 Mar 2014, at 22:47, Eugenio Gianniti <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> My problems are mainly related to the FEniCS project documentation. I wasn't 
>> able to
>> find a comprehensive list of the dependencies, their installation 
>> instructions for the build
>> from sources are minimal. Moreover I run into troubles also building some of 
>> the
>> dependencies. It seems like they provide little support for anything else 
>> than Ubuntu 
>> (http://fenicsproject.org/documentation/tutorial/misc.html#installing-fenics),
>>  so
>> a first step should be to get in contact with them and ask for guidance.
>>
>> If anyone was able to build FEniCS from sources on Mac OS X 10.9, his/her 
>> help is welcome.
> What I did was install FEnics via the binary installer then compile Octave 
> from source linking
> to the libraries installed by FEnics in /Applications/FEnics.app
>
> That was on OSX10.8 though, I think the current FEnics binary installer does 
> not support Mavericks.
> This seems like a good opportunity to try interacting with the Dolfin 
> developers by asking their help.
>
> If everything else fails, while we wait for OSX10.9 to be fully supported by 
> FEnics, I have a virtual appliance
> with Octave + FEnics + fem-fenics preinstalled in ubuntu 13.10
>
> c.

When the topic drifts away fo the original, please do change the
subject of the mails. The current discussion is not connected to
configure.ac in fem-fenics package.
I suggest chaging the title to "Compiling fenics in OSX" or something liek that.

thanks