[petsc-users] pkg-config

[Jed Brown]

This was a bug, now fixed in 'maint' and will be in the next patch
release.  You can repair the PETSc.pc, update to 'maint', or apply this
2-line patch.

https://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc/commits/e1e675de8c3f48a6c27b15412e00ded76072f735

Adrian Croucher <a.croucher at auckland.ac.nz> writes:

> hi
>
> I am experimenting with using pkg-config to help build my code, and 
> using the PETSc.pc file in $PETSC_DIR/$PETSC_ARCH/lib/pkgconfig.
>
> At present it is not working, because the PETSc.pc file sets Libs: 
> -L${libdir} -lpetsc
>
> where libdir=${prefix}/lib, and (in my case at least) prefix is equal to 
> $PETSC_DIR.
>
> But the PETSc library is not in $PETSC_DIR/lib, it is in 
> $PETSC_DIR/$PETSC_ARCH/lib.
>
> Have I messed something up in my PETSc config so that the PETSc.pc file 
> is not quite right?
>
> - Adrian
>
> -- 
> Dr Adrian Croucher
> Senior Research Fellow
> Department of Engineering Science
> University of Auckland, New Zealand
> email: a.croucher at auckland.ac.nz
> tel: +64 (0)9 923 4611