Version 7 doesn't require parmgridgen. I has dependencies on scoth, paraview and cgal, all of which are available in the tree.


Am Sa., 28. Sept. 2019 um 21:50 Uhr schrieb Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org>:
On Sat, 2019-09-28 at 20:57 +0200, waebbl wrote:
> > sci-libs/openfoam
>
> sci-libs/openfoam is available at https://github.com/OpenFOAM, including
> old versions for slots 2.{2,3,4}, each in it's own repository. I haven't
> checked whether those ancient version still compile, with the sources from
> github, but I've started working on a bump to current version 7, some time
> ago, after I noticed that parmgridgen isn't building and I didn't find any
> updates for it.
> I would consider taking responsibility of the package for the new versions,
> once my ebuild is ready and get's accepted into the tree, as it's a package
> which can be supported by freecad, on which I'm actively working for almost
> a year now.
>

OpenFOAM is not the problem -- parmgridgen is.  OpenFOAM apparently
requires it unconditionally.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny