NEST Testsuite Summary

[ghost]

Just installed NEST, ran the test suite and encountered some problems.

I'm attaching the requested logs and would be happy to answer any questions in case I can help.

nest logs.zip

[heplesser]

@adamhaber Thank you for your report. Which OS, compiler, MPI library, Python version are you using?

[ghost]

OSX 10.11.5, Python 2.7 (anaconda). How can I check for compiler version and MPI library?

[heplesser]

@adamhaber I assume that you compiled with the standard compiler under OSX, which is clang. Unfortunately, NEST and clang have some issues (see #74).

The easiest way to install NEST on a Mac is to install it via the Homebrew package manager:

1. To install homebrew, follow the instructions here: http://brew.sh/
2. Then, in a terminal
   1. Add the homebrew/science tap: execute brew tap homebrew/science
   2. For information on what options NEST has and what will be installed, execute brew info nest
   3. To install nest, execute brew install nest

Options have to be appended, e.g. to install NEST with PyNEST execute brew install nest --with-python.

I will close this issue as a duplicate of #74. Generally, the NEST User Mailing List is a good place for advice on installation problems and similar, because more people follow it and provide feedback.