Hi Onno,
On 1 Dec 2015, at 20:14, Onno Bokhove <O.Bokhove@leeds.ac.uk> wrote:
I worked on the matter the entire day, in part with our IT man, and Anna's suggestions, seemed to have passed all hoops at some point, passing the firedrake make, but then a test code did not work.
Please send the error message from this failure.
We failed. It seems indeed to be fortran mli compiler.
Yes, we believe that the current version of openmpi built by homebrew does not come with fortran support. This will hopefully be fixed in the next few days.
One thing I noticed with Anna's suggestions, that some of the instructions are not required, and this was for me not clear from reading them.
Suggestions for things to change, and or remove are very welcome!
Our IT man is going to try an install FD on a free mac laptop (with Yosemite alas) trying to use openmpi installed from another source, as well as use anaconda.
If using anaconda, beware that they ship with a number of Python packages that require MPI but are not typically linked against whatever system MPI is already available which can lead to more problems.
More people in our dept. want to try firedrake, on their mac laptop, so resolving this issue soon may be a good idea!
We hope very much to have Mac build testing working soon. It appears additionally that this week was a particularly bad week to try installs on a Mac due to breakages out with our control. Lawrence