[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Bug#468550: Bug#468550: libmesh: Add second derivative support to un-break ex15

[Adam C Powell IV]

On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 14:48 -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 19:04 +0100, Ondrej Certik wrote:
> > Hi Adam,
> > 
> > On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct at debian.org> wrote:
> > > Package: libmesh
> > >  Tags: patch
> > >
> > >  Greetings,
> > >
> > >  ex15 is broken because of lack of second derivative support.  You can
> > >  add this by simply adding "--enable-second" to the configure command in
> > >  rules.  I rebuilt the package with this change, and ex15 works.
> > >
> > >  I imagine there are a lot of similar features that would be easy to add
> > >  in this way.
> > 
> > Thanks a lot for the patch. I'll try to apply and upload soon.
> 
> Take your time.  I'm investigating metis support using the new
> libscotchmetis-dev, and will let you know when I've confirmed it works,
> probably early next week.  No need to upload twice in such a short time.
> 
> > If you want to help me maintaining this package, let me know - it's in
> > the pkg-scicomp svn repository, I think you, as a DD, can edit it (or
> > ask Christophe to add you in). I am not using this package much these
> > days, I use our own python+C solver:
> > 
> > http://code.google.com/p/sfepy/
> > 
> > So any help is welcomed. Feel free to fix/upload libmesh anytime you
> > want without waiting for me.
> 
> Thanks, I appreciate the offer.

Hi, I think I'd like to take you up on this offer, by fixing these two
bugs (468550 and 470418) and uploading.  Christophe, is this okay with
you, or do you have other libmesh plans?

Do I need an account on pkg-scicomp?

-Adam
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