This gave me the following error:

Installing GLPK
Updating the git repository for glpk
No need to rebuild glpk
Installing libspatialindex
Updating the git repository for libspatialindex
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "../bin/firedrake-update", line 1214, in <module>
    build_and_install_libspatialindex()
  File "../bin/firedrake-update", line 799, in build_and_install_libspatialindex
    check_call(["./autogen.sh"])
  File "../bin/firedrake-update", line 357, in check_call
    log.debug(subprocess.check_output(arguments, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT, env=env))
  File "/opt/firedrake/python/2.7.9/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 573, in check_output
    raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd, output=output)
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['./autogen.sh']' returned non-zero exit status 1

Log is attached.

Thanks
Will

From: firedrake-bounces@imperial.ac.uk <firedrake-bounces@imperial.ac.uk> on behalf of Lawrence Mitchell <lawrence.mitchell@imperial.ac.uk>
Sent: 07 June 2017 11:23:11
To: firedrake@imperial.ac.uk
Subject: Re: [firedrake] firedrake-update failed
 


On 07/06/17 11:17, William Booker wrote:
> Dear Firedrakers,
>
> Attached the log for a failed firedrake update.
> What should I do to work around this?

Please do:

pip uninstall petsc
cd firedrake/src/petsc
git clean -fdx
firedrake-update --rebuild

Thanks,

Lawrence