<div dir="ltr">Can anyone think of a way to get a better message from<div><br></div><div>[0]PETSC ERROR: --------------------- Error Message --------------------------------------------------------------<br>[0]PETSC ERROR: Unknown type. Check for miss-spelling or missing package: <a href="http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/documentation/installation.html#external" target="_blank">http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/documentation/installation.html#external</a><br>[0]PETSC ERROR: Unknown PetscViewer type given: hdf5<br>[0]PETSC ERROR: See <a href="http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/documentation/faq.html" target="_blank">http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/documentation/faq.html</a> for trouble shooting.<br>[0]PETSC ERROR: Petsc Release Version 3.10.2, Oct, 09, 2018<br>[0]PETSC ERROR: ./testPlex on a  named <a href="http://kif.eng.buffalo.edu/" target="_blank">kif.eng.buffalo.edu</a> by bldenton Mon Sep 30 21:18:30 2019<br>[0]PETSC ERROR: Configure options --with-make-np=24 --prefix=/kif1/data/shared/software/libs/petsc/3.10.2/gcc/8.2.0/mpich/3.2.1/openblas/0.2.20/opt --with-debugging=false --COPTFLAGS="-O3 -mavx" --CXXOPTFLAGS="-O3 -mavx" --FOPTFLAGS=-O3 --with-shared-libraries=1 --with-mpi-dir=/kif1/data/shared/software/libs/mpich/3.2.1/gcc/8.2.0 --with-mumps=true --download-mumps=1 --with-metis=true --download-metis=1 --with-parmetis=true --download-parmetis=1 --with-superlu=true --download-superlu=1 --with-superludir=true --download-superlu_dist=1 --with-blacs=true --download-blacs=1 --with-scalapack=true --download-scalapack=1 --with-hypre=true --download-hypre=1 --with-blas-lib="[/kif1/data/shared/software/libs/openblas/0.2.20/gcc/8.2.0/lib/libopenblas.so]" --with-lapack-lib="[/kif1/data/shared/software/libs/openblas/0.2.20/gcc/8.2.0/lib/libopenblas.so]" --LDFLAGS=<br>[0]PETSC ERROR: #1 PetscViewerSetType() line 444 in /kif1/data/shared/software/builddir/petsc-L9c6Pv/petsc-3.10.2/src/sys/classes/viewer/interface/viewreg.c<br>[0]PETSC ERROR: #2 PetscOptionsGetViewer() line 327 in /kif1/data/shared/software/builddir/petsc-L9c6Pv/petsc-3.10.2/src/sys/classes/viewer/interface/viewreg.c<br>[0]PETSC ERROR: #3 PetscObjectViewFromOptions() line 133 in /kif1/data/shared/software/builddir/petsc-L9c6Pv/petsc-3.10.2/src/sys/objects/destroy.c<br>[0]PETSC ERROR: #4 main() line 210 in /kif1/data/users/bldenton/EGADSlite/egadsPlex/egadsPlex.c</div><div><br></div><div>I want it to say "Try configuring with --download-hdf5"</div><div><br></div><div>  Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>     Matt<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.<br>-- Norbert Wiener</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/" target="_blank">https://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/</a><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>