gmsh and libscotchmetis

[Anton Gladky]

Hi, Adam!

> Sounds good, thanks.  I notice you also added the interfaces you need
> for gmsh to Bug 506033, thanks.
Ok, done.

> For Elmer, I noticed that it could do node-wise or element-wise
> partitioning, and just disabled the element-wise partitioning which used
> METIS_PartMesh* functions.  Is it possible to do something similar for
> gmsh?

I just shortly looked at the code, but it seems, that the
functionality of metis-module will be seriously restricted, if those 2
functions will be disabled.

Anton




On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct at debian.org> wrote:
> Hi Anton,
>
> Sounds good, thanks.  I notice you also added the interfaces you need
> for gmsh to Bug 506033, thanks.
>
> For Elmer, I noticed that it could do node-wise or element-wise
> partitioning, and just disabled the element-wise partitioning which used
> METIS_PartMesh* functions.  Is it possible to do something similar for
> gmsh?
>
> -Adam
>
> On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 17:46 +0200, Anton Gladky wrote:
>> Thanks for answers, I have uploaded a new version with disabled metis.
>>
>> Anton
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct at debian.org> wrote:
>> > Hi Anton,
>> >
>> > On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 07:29 +0200, Anton Gladky wrote:
>> >> Hi, all!
>> >>
>> >> I am trying to package gmsh 2.5.1~svn version and to fix lintian
>> >> errors and warnings. But I have a problem with linking against
>> >> packaged libscotchmetis. The following error appears:
>> >>
>> >> Linking CXX executable gmsh
>> >> /home/dk/gmsh/nv/upl_metis/gmsh-2.5.1~svn9373/Mesh/meshPartition.cpp:527:
>> >> error: undefined reference to 'METIS_mCPartGraphKway'
>> >> /home/dk/gmsh/nv/upl_metis/gmsh-2.5.1~svn9373/Mesh/meshPartition.cpp:502:
>> >> error: undefined reference to 'METIS_mCPartGraphRecursive'
>> >> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>> >
>> > The scotchmetis compatibility layer is not a complete reimplementation
>> > of METIS.  Bug 506033 requests addition of PartMesh functions; these may
>> > also be missing.
>> >
>> > I or someone else should probably forward these requests upstream and
>> > see if there is some prospect of implementing these functions...
>> >
>> > -Adam
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