Bug#927140: getdp compiled without support for gmsh

[Andrius Merkys]

Hello,

it seems that getdp wants to be linked with private gmsh API, which is not
installed by Debian packages yet [1].

[1] https://packages.debian.org/sid/alpha/libgmsh-dev/filelist

Best,
Andrius

On Mon, 15 Apr 2019, 16:33 boffi, <giacomo.boffi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Package: getdp
> Version: 3.0.4+dfsg1-1
> Severity: important
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> I was trying to familiarize with dpget, running the tutorials available
> on https://gitlab.onelab.info/doc/tutorials but when I followed the
> instructions contained, e.g., in the MagneticForces subdirectory
>
>  >  To compute the solution in a terminal:
>  >  First generate the (3D) mesh and then run getdp with the chosen
> resolution
>  >      gmsh magnets.geo -3
>  >      getdp magnets.pro -solve MagSta_a
>
> I had the following response
>
>  >  $ getdp magnets.pro -solve MagSta_a
>  >  Info    : Running 'getdp magnets.pro -solve MagSta_a' [GetDP
> 3.0.4-git, 1 node, max. 1 thread]
>  >  Info    : Started (Mon Apr 15 15:09:54 2019, Wall = 0.759439s, CPU =
> 0.088765s, Mem = 25.0664Mb)
>  >  Info    : Increasing process stack size (8192 kB < 16 MB)
>  >  Info    : Loading problem definition 'magnets.pro'
>  >  Info    : Loading problem definition 'magnets_common.pro'
>  >  Info    : Selected Resolution 'MagSta_a'
>  >  Info    : Loading Geometric data 'magnets.msh'
>  >  Error   : You need to compile GetDP with Gmsh support to open
> 'magnets.msh'
>  >  $
>
> If I am correct assuming that in most cases one want to use getdp using
> gmsh as its pre- and post-processor, the problem I'm reporting constitutes
> a real breakage for most users.
>
> Regards, gb
>
> P.S.: maybe getdp should, at least, recommend the gmsh package.
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: buster/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE,
> TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
> Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8
> (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> LSM: AppArmor: enabled
>
> Versions of packages getdp depends on:
> ii  libarpack2                       3.7.0-1
> ii  libatlas3-base [liblapack.so.3]  3.10.3-8
> ii  libc6                            2.28-8
> ii  libgcc1                          1:8.3.0-6
> ii  libgfortran5                     8.3.0-6
> ii  libgsl23                         2.5+dfsg-6
> ii  liblapack3 [liblapack.so.3]      3.8.0-2
> ii  libopenmpi3                      3.1.3-10
> ii  libpetsc-real3.10                3.10.5+dfsg1-1
> ii  libpython2.7                     2.7.16-2
> ii  libslepc-real3.10                3.10.2+dfsg1-1
> ii  libstdc++6                       8.3.0-6
>
> getdp recommends no packages.
>
> getdp suggests no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
>
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