[firedrake] Firedrake Installation on Mac OS

[Lawrence Mitchell]

Hi Anna,

> On 16 Nov 2014, at 18:24, Anna Kalogirou <A.Kalogirou at leeds.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> 
> I have now reached the point where I need test the PyOP2 installation, but when I write
> 
> make test
> 
> I get an error which I believe is related to open-mpi. It looks like libpetsc references the path
> 
> /private/tmp/pip-hBwvhb-build/macosx-10.9-x86_64-

Ok, this appears to be an issue with the way some external packages are installed by petsc when using pip. Hwloc is non essential so can you add --download-hwloc=0 to the petsc configure options. In the mean time I will report a bug upstream. 

Cheers, 

Lawrence