[cig-commits] r7596 - short/3D/PyLith/trunk

[brad at geodynamics.org]

Author: brad
Date: 2007-07-02 17:11:31 -0700 (Mon, 02 Jul 2007)
New Revision: 7596

Modified:
   short/3D/PyLith/trunk/README
Log:
Added note on how to use binary on x86_64 bit systems.

Modified: short/3D/PyLith/trunk/README
===================================================================
--- short/3D/PyLith/trunk/README	2007-07-02 22:21:36 UTC (rev 7595)
+++ short/3D/PyLith/trunk/README	2007-07-03 00:11:31 UTC (rev 7596)
@@ -99,3 +99,24 @@
 
       - Parallel importing of meshes from LaGrit and CUBIT lacked
         guards against all processors reading the files.
+
+======================================================================
+KNOWN ISSUES
+======================================================================
+
+1. "merlin.DistributionNotFound: Cheetah" error
+
+  The binary package is for 32-bit linux systems. One of the Python
+  packages PyLith uses doesn't know how to determine the system
+  architecture at runtime. The workaround is:
+
+  (1) Go to the lib/python2.5/site-packages directory.
+  (2) Unzip merlin-1.3-py2.5.egg (if it is a file and not a directory).
+  (3) Go to the merlin directory.
+  (4) Edit __init__.py. Replace line 308
+        plat = get_platform()
+      with
+        plat = "linux-i686"
+  (5) If merlin-1.3-py2.5.egg is a file, rezip merlin. Go the
+      site-packages directory and enter
+      "zip -r merlin-1.3-py2.5.egg merlin".