problem with dolfin installation

Hi,

Murtazo Nazarov wrote:
> New question #93975 on DOLFIN:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/dolfin/+question/93975
>
> Hi,
>
> I am facing to the following error when I compile dolfin
>
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lboost_program_options
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> scons: *** [dolfin/libdolfin.so.0.9.5] Error 1
> scons: building terminated because of errors.
> dolfin/libdolfin.so.0.9.5 failed: Error 1
> Failure with exit status: 2
> Exit message: There was a problem building dolfin.
>
>
> However, I have lboost_program_options:
>
> murtazo@na50:~/local/FEniCS$ ls -l /usr/lib/libboost_program_options-*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 Dec 12 01:35
> /usr/lib/libboost_program_options-gcc-mt.a ->
> libboost_program_options-gcc41-mt.a
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 599610 Oct 8 12:44
> /usr/lib/libboost_program_options-mt.a
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 37 Dec 12 01:16
> /usr/lib/libboost_program_options-mt.so ->
> libboost_program_options-mt.so.1.38.0
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 268808 Oct 8 12:44
> /usr/lib/libboost_program_options-mt.so.1.38.0
> murtazo@na50:~/local/FEniCS$

I had a similar error a while ago. The name of the
boost_programm_options shared library has changed in ubuntu from the
old name -lboost_program_options to -lboost_program_options-<SOMETHING>.
The solution was to search for old package-config files generated by
DOLFINS's scons, which caches also the link flags, erase them and
regenerate them via scons.
"locate *boost*.pc" might be useful to find them (or the find command).
HTH,
Andre

>
>
> murtazo@na50:~/local/FEniCS$ dpkg -l|grep boost
> ii libboost-date-time1.38-dev
> 1.38.0-6ubuntu6 set of date-time
> libraries based on generic
> ii libboost-date-time1.38.0
> 1.38.0-6ubuntu6 set of date-time
> libraries based on generic
> ii libboost-dev
> 1.38.1 Boost C++ Libraries
> development files (defau
> rc libboost-filesystem1.34.1
> 1.34.1-16ubuntu1 filesystem
> operations (portable paths, itera
> ii libboost-filesystem1.38-dev
> 1.38.0-6ubuntu6 filesystem
> operations (portable paths, itera
> ii libboost-filesystem1.38.0
> 1.38.0-6ubuntu6 filesystem
> operations (portable paths, itera
> ii libboost-graph1.38-dev
> 1.38.0-6ubuntu6 generic graph
> components and algorithms in C
> ii libboost-graph1.38.0
> 1.38.0-6ubuntu6 generic graph
> components and algorithms in C
> ii libboost-iostreams1.38-dev
> 1.38.0-6ubuntu6 Boost.Iostreams
> Library development files
> ii libboost-iostreams1.38.0
> 1.38.0-6ubuntu6 Boost.Iostreams
> Library
> ii libboost-math1.38-dev
> 1.38.0-6ubuntu6 Boost.Math Library
> development files
> ii libboost-math1.38.0
> 1.38.0-6ubuntu6 Boost.Math Library
> ii libboost-program-options-dev
> 1.38.1 program options
> library for C++ (default ver
> rc libboost-program-options1.34.1
> 1.34.1-16ubuntu1 program options
> library for C++
> rc libboost-program-options1.35.0
> 1.35.0-8ubuntu5 program options
> library for C++
> ii libboost-program-options1.38-dev
> 1.38.0-6ubuntu6 program options
> library for C++
> ii libboost-program-options1.38.0
> 1.38.0-6ubuntu6 program options
> library for C++
> ii libboost-program-options1.40.0
> 1.40.0-2ubuntu2 program options
> library for C++
> rc libboost-python1.35.0
> 1.35.0-8ubuntu5 Boost.Python Library
> ii libboost-python1.38-dev
> 1.38.0-6ubuntu6 Boost.Python
> Library development files
> ii libboost-python1.38.0
> 1.38.0-6ubuntu6 Boost.Python Library
> rc libboost-python1.40.0
> 1.40.0-2ubuntu2 Boost.Python Library
> rc libboost-regex1.34.1
> 1.34.1-16ubuntu1 regular expression
> library for C++
> ii libboost-regex1.38-dev
> 1.38.0-6ubuntu6 regular expression
> library for C++
> ii libboost-regex1.38.0
> 1.38.0-6ubuntu6 regular expression
> library for C++
> rc libboost-serialization1.34.1
> 1.34.1-16ubuntu1 serialization
> library for C++
> ii libboost-serialization1.38-dev
> 1.38.0-6ubuntu6 serialization
> library for C++
> ii libboost-serialization1.38.0
> 1.38.0-6ubuntu6 serialization
> library for C++
> rc libboost-signals1.34.1
> 1.34.1-16ubuntu1 managed signals and
> slots library for C++
> ii libboost-signals1.38-dev
> 1.38.0-6ubuntu6 managed signals and
> slots library for C++
> ii libboost-signals1.38.0
> 1.38.0-6ubuntu6 managed signals and
> slots library for C++
> ii libboost-system1.38-dev
> 1.38.0-6ubuntu6 Operating system
> (e.g. diagnostics support)
> ii libboost-system1.38.0
> 1.38.0-6ubuntu6 Operating system
> (e.g. diagnostics support)
> ii libboost-test1.38-dev
> 1.38.0-6ubuntu6 components for
> writing and executing test su
> ii libboost-test1.38.0
> 1.38.0-6ubuntu6 components for
> writing and executing test su
> rc libboost-thread1.34.1
> 1.34.1-16ubuntu1 portable C++
> multi-threading
> ii libboost-thread1.38-dev
> 1.38.0-6ubuntu6 portable C++
> multi-threading
> ii libboost-thread1.38.0
> 1.38.0-6ubuntu6 portable C++
> multi-threading
> ii libboost-wave1.38-dev
> 1.38.0-6ubuntu6 C99/C++
> preprocessor library
> ii libboost-wave1.38.0
> 1.38.0-6ubuntu6 C99/C++
> preprocessor library
> ii libboost1.38-dev
> 1.38.0-6ubuntu6 Boost C++ Libraries
> development files
> ii libboost1.38-doc
> 1.38.0-6ubuntu6 Boost.org libraries
> documentation
> murtazo@na50:~/local/FEniCS$
>
>
> Can you see what could be a problem?
>
> Thanks a lot,
> murtazo
>
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Hi,

I tried what you said, I did

>scons -c
>rm scons/pkgconfig/*

then configured and compiled again using dorsal, the same problem is still there.

Hi,

Murtazo Nazarov wrote:
> Question #93975 on DOLFIN changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/dolfin/+question/93975
>
> Status: Answered => Open
>
> Murtazo Nazarov is still having a problem:
>
> Hi,
>
> I tried what you said, I did
>
>> scons -c
>> rm scons/pkgconfig/*

If you run scons -c, does it regenerate the pkgconfig file for boost
program_options ? If not, it takes a somewhere existing pc file as default.
You might also want to check older installation paths of DOLFIN.
"locate boost_program_options.pc" or
"locate *boost*program*.pc"
should help to find any old pc files lying around, assuming that your
file location database is up-to-date.

>
> then configured and compiled again using dorsal, the same problem is
> still there.
>

Thanks Andre Massing, that solved my question.

Hi!
I had the same problem in Karmic Koala.
I've solved the problem by removing all libboost versions <1.38,
with the exception of libboost-program-options1.38 libboost-test1.38 and libboost-signal1.38 that are required by some kde or gnome stuff
Then I've installed all 1.40 versions.
Note that the libboost*-dev that I have are only from 1.40 versions.
I've also removed old boost.pc files.

Hope it helps.
N.Lopes

Hi,

It seems I can compile and run the demos, but I cannot rebuild ulf form files:

murtazo@na50:~/local/FEniCS/dolfin/demo/pde/poisson/cpp$ ffc -l dolfin Poisson.ufl
This is FFC, the FEniCS Form Compiler, version 0.7.1.
For further information, visit http://www.fenics.org/ffc/.

An exception occured during evaluation of form file.
To help you find the location of the error, a temporary script
'Poisson_debug.py'
has been created and will now be executed with debug output enabled:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/murtazo/local/FEniCS/build/bin/ffc", line 167, in <module>
    sys.exit(main(sys.argv[1:]))
  File "/home/murtazo/local/FEniCS/build/bin/ffc", line 138, in main
    ufd = load_ufl_file(filename)
  File "/home/murtazo/local/FEniCS/build/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ufl/algorithms/formfiles.py", line 92, in load_ufl_file
    m = __import__(basename)
  File "/home/murtazo/local/FEniCS/dolfin/demo/pde/poisson/cpp/Poisson_debug.py", line 19, in <module>
    f = Function(element)
NameError: name 'Function' is not defined
murtazo@na50:~/local/FEniCS/dolfin/demo/pde/poisson/cpp$ python --version
Python 2.6.4

Does anyone experienced this error or any ideas?

murtazo

Yes!
I've solved the problem using the dev version of dolfin and the stable version of ffc.
See
https://answers.launchpad.net/dorsal/+question/93756

Hope it helps again :D