Help installing fenics on a ppc64 cluster

installation
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Hello,

I’ve been trying to install fenics on ppc64 based cluster (at my uni). looks like gcc version is 4.8.5. I have a local install of anaconda. I have installed the following paclages via anacodna

fenics-dijitso 2019.1.0 py_9 conda-forge
fenics-ffc 2019.1.0 py_9 conda-forge
fenics-fiat 2019.1.0 py_9 conda-forge
fenics-ufl 2019.1.0 py_9 conda-forge

I then downloaded dolphin and mshr from bitbucket per the instructions (checked out branch 2019.1.0) compiled and installed. Had to just through a few loops to get everything to compile and install, but that seems to work.

Now, when I try to import fenic in python I get the following error, any ideas? (could this be a missmatch in gcc version, as python says that it was compiled with gcc 7.3.0)

from .cpp import version
ImportError: /home/michaf/.local/lib64/libdolfin.so.2019.1: undefined symbol: _ZNK5boost15program_options22error_with_option_name23substitute_placeholdersERKSs

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Got some progress. I installed gcc/g++ 8.2 via anaconda and recompiled. Missing symbol is resolved, so probably C++ symbol mangling changed.
Now I get an immediate segmentation fault on import.

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Your original error said the missing symbol was from boost. Did you have boost installed?

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Yes, boost was installed and found (otherwise it wouldn’t compile at all due to missing headers).

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Looks like some mismatch between boost and dolfin then. Might be the conda folk need to recompile their dolfin.