[CIG-SHORT] PyLith tutorial at CIG16: things you need to do **before** the tutorial

[Ravi Kanda]

Brad,

Thats great - makes sense - thanks for the clarification.
Looking forward to the workshop and tutorial.

Regards,
Ravi.
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On 06/13/2016 04:39 PM, Brad Aagaard wrote:
> On 06/13/2016 03:29 PM, Ravi Kanda wrote:
>> Brad,
>>
>> I managed to get back to the Pylith installation this afternoon. Looks
>> like I was able to install after enabling both cppunit & netcdf - but
>> only with the "--enable-force-install" config option. After setting up
>> my env-variables, I was able to run Pylith without any problems as far
>> as I can tell.  I ran "examples/2d/subduction" - step01 (attached image)
>> - don't see any errors/warnings in STDOUT, and I was able to get all 12
>> pairs of output files as stated in the manual (Sec. 7.9.4).
>>
>> I have a couple of quick questions regarding my installation:
>>
>> (1) The binary linux tarball from the website contains three folders
>> (etc, lib64, src), that I do not see under my <PYLITH-INSTALL-ROOT>.  Is
>> that a 'red-flag'?
>
> Glad to hear that the installer worked for you.
>
> No, the absence of these directories is not a red flag.
>
> lib64 may nor may not be there, depending on the compiler and linker.
>
> etc may or may not be there depending on which dependencies the 
> installer installed.
>
> src will never be in $PREFIX (see below).
>
>> (2) After pylith installed, I only found examples under the
>> <INSTALLER-ROOT>/pylith-2.1.0/examples folder.  Is this the expected
>> behavior, or was I supposed to see it an unpacked version under
>> <PYLITH-INSTALL-ROOT>/src/examples?  The reason I ask is that the pylith
>> binary for linux contains such a directory with the unpacked cfg/mesh
>> files.  However, the <INSTALLER-ROOT>/pylith-build/examples directory
>> does not contain any of the cfg/mesh files - only the directory
>> structure + Makefiles.
>
> The PyLith installer builds PyLith from source, so you already have a 
> copy of the source code; it doesn't really make sense to make another 
> copy of the source code in $PREFIX. We package the source code with 
> the binary package so people have the examples and the corresponding 
> source code.
>
> Regards,
> Brad
>

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Ravi Kanda
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Department of Geology
Utah State University
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