Hi, Andrea Palazzi a écrit :
- I'd really prefer to remove the libmetis dependency and keep it in main and not in contrib; after all libmetis is not absolutely required ( the patch no_metis_default.diff was there to change the default renumerator from metis to md ) , and I think that packages in contrib are out of the auto-builder circuit. Moreover we all prefer 100% free software ;-)
I agree that this Aster in Debian would be better with the non-free dependency on libmetis. However, I actually had troubles during build with scotch version of metis. I will look into this further, though.
- I would really like to have both the serial and mpi version available: the serial version is faster if you're not running a cluster
I'm not opposed to having both versions but, again, I had trouble building the non-mpi flavor. So I actually chose the simplest path to having a working version of code-aster in Debian.
- then, if you have two (or more) versions, you'll need a script to update the information in /etc/codeaster/aster ; note that this file is partly a status file - that is, its content represents some kind of status, in our case the available versions: this is what the postinst/postrm scripts were supposed to do
Not sure how soon we'll have two (or more) versions of code-aster.
- not sure if it's automatically done somewhere, but on 64 bit architectures you'll have to pass -D_MED_USE_SHORT_INT to the compiler to be able to open med files
This is done automatically, there's a call to 'check_sizeof_med_int' at configure step.
PS: the package fails to build on my system with git-buildpackage - it seems it can't find some metis file, but I have installed libmetis-dev. It also fails with git-buildpackage/cowbuilder because libmetis is in non-free... how do you build the package?
Either using debian/rules binary or dpkg-buildpackage or sbuild. It builds fine on Sid and Wheezy, as well as in sbuild's chroots. I'm not surprised git-buildpackage does not work as is, since I didn't figure out yet what the git repository layout should be.
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