Bug#771291: gerris: fails with tutorial examples: error compiling expression

[Vincent Fourmond]

Package: src:gerris
Version: 20131206+dfsg-4
Severity: grave
Justification: make the package unusable

  Hello,

  Trying gerris with the example files given on
http://gfs.sourceforge.net/tutorial/tutorial/tutorial1.html (which
I'm attaching here for the sake of completeness), I have the following
error:

gerris: file `vt2.gfs' is not a valid simulation file
vt2.gfs:14:0: error compiling expression
Package gts was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gts.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
Package 'gts', required by 'gerris2D', not found
/usr/share/gerris/build_function: 28: /usr/share/gerris/build_function: mpicc: not found

Installing the libgts-dev improves the situation a bit since it
reduces the error message to:

gerris: file `vt2.gfs' is not a valid simulation file
vt2.gfs:14:0: error compiling expression
/usr/share/gerris/build_function: 28: /usr/share/gerris/build_function: mpicc: not found

  If I install the gerris-mpi version, it isn't any better

gerris2D vt2.gfs
[nausicaa:20717] [[INVALID],INVALID] ORTE_ERROR_LOG: A system-required executable either could not be found or was not executable by this user in file ess_singleton_module.c at line 231
[nausicaa:20717] [[INVALID],INVALID] ORTE_ERROR_LOG: A system-required executable either could not be found or was not executable by this user in file ess_singleton_module.c at line 140
[nausicaa:20717] [[INVALID],INVALID] ORTE_ERROR_LOG: A system-required executable either could not be found or was not executable by this user in file runtime/orte_init.c at line 128
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sorry!  You were supposed to get help about:
    orte_init:startup:internal-failure
But I couldn't open the help file:
    /usr/share/openmpi/help-orte-runtime: No such file or directory.  Sorry!
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sorry!  You were supposed to get help about:
    mpi_init:startup:internal-failure
But I couldn't open the help file:
    /usr/share/openmpi/help-mpi-runtime: No such file or directory.  Sorry!
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sorry!  You were supposed to get help about:
    mpi_errors_are_fatal unknown handle
But I couldn't open the help file:
    /usr/share/openmpi/help-mpi-errors.txt: No such file or directory.  Sorry!
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sorry!  You were supposed to get help about:
    ompi mpi abort:cannot guarantee all killed
But I couldn't open the help file:
    /usr/share/openmpi/help-mpi-runtime.txt: No such file or directory.  Sorry!
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

  I'm setting the severity to grave as essentially, it seems
impossible for a user to actually use the version of gerris currently
in Debian.

  Kind regards,

       Vincent


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.14-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gerris depends on:
ii  libav-tools   6:11-1
ii  libc6         2.19-11
ii  libgcc1       1:4.9.1-16
ii  libgfortran3  4.9.1-16
ii  libgfs-1.3-2  20131206+dfsg-4
ii  libgfs-dev    20131206+dfsg-4
ii  libglib2.0-0  2.40.0-4
ii  libgts-0.7-5  0.7.6+darcs121130-1.2
ii  libquadmath0  4.9.1-16

Versions of packages gerris recommends:
ii  gfsview  20121130+dfsg-1

Versions of packages gerris suggests:
ii  python  2.7.8-1

-- no debconf information
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1 2 GfsSimulation GfsBox GfsGEdge {} {
  GfsTime { end = 50 }
  GfsRefine 6
  GfsInit {} {
    U = (0.5 - rand()/(double)RAND_MAX)
    V = (0.5 - rand()/(double)RAND_MAX)
  }  
  GfsOutputTime            { istep = 10 } stdout
  GfsOutputProjectionStats { istep = 10 } stdout
}
GfsBox {}
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