[petsc-dev] hdf5.py needing libz hardwired?

[Dmitry Karpeev]

libz can also be downloaded and built from sources more or less trivially.

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 4:55 AM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

>
>   In BuildSystem/packages/hdf5.py it depends on libz but just checks that
> at the same time as checking the hdf5 libraries. Shouldn't hdf5.py depend on
> libz.py and then libz.py does a clean check for libz and tells the user the
> proper fix it if does not find it. For example listing the Linux package
> commands for getting it if not installed? Current code requires PETSc
> developer to tell the user what to do each time.
>
>   Can someone fix this?
>
>
>   Barry
>
>
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