[petsc-users] cannot open source file "petsc.h"

[Jed Brown]

Hmm, usually we don't use BOTH the makefile includes and pkgconfig (as in Makefile.user). You can use either. If you share the whole file and the command line that executes, I think it'll be easy enough to fix.

"Evstafyeva,Tamara" <te307 at cam.ac.uk> writes:

> To whom it may concern,
>
> I am using a code that utilizes some of the PETSC capabilities. After configuring and installing PETSC on a cluster, I have set my environment variables $PETSC_DIR and $PETSC_ARCH. The code using PETSC compiles using GNUMakefile and so using instructions on the website and in Makefile.user I added the following lines to the make file:
>
>
> include ${PETSC_DIR}/lib/petsc/conf/variables
>
> include ${PETSC_DIR}/lib/petsc/conf/rules
>
> include ${PETSC_DIR}/lib/petsc/conf/test
>
>
> petsc.pc := $(PETSC_DIR)/$(PETSC_ARCH)/lib/pkgconfig/petsc.pc
>
> When compiling the code I get that the head files of PETSC are not recognized:
>
> catastrophic error: cannot open source file "petsc.h"
>
> This seems like a trivial problem, however I cannot seem to figure out what exactly went wrong. I’d expect this cannot be installation problem, and most likely the linking? I would really appreciate some direction on this problem.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Tamara