[petsc-dev] Fwd: [petsc-users] cannot find 'libz.a' when configuring

[Barry Smith]

  Shouldn't this be fixed by now in PETSc-dev?



Begin forwarded message:

> From: Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov>
> Subject: Re: [petsc-users] cannot find 'libz.a' when configuring
> Date: April 10, 2013 5:21:38 PM CDT
> To: PETSc users list <petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov>
> Reply-To: PETSc users list <petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov>
> 
> try using configure option LIBS="-L/opt/zlib-1.2.7/lib -lz'
> 
> Satish
> 
> On Wed, 10 Apr 2013, Seungbum Koo wrote:
> 
>> Hi. I tried to add hdf5 when configuring. HDF5-1.8.9 is currently installed
>> with szip-2.1 and zlib-1.2.7.
>> 
>> It stops with message
>> 
>> *******************************************************************************
>>         UNABLE to CONFIGURE with GIVEN OPTIONS    (see configure.log for
>> details):
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Compression library [libz.a or equivalent] not found
>> *******************************************************************************
>> 
>> What I don't understand is that 'libz.a' file exists in
>> '/opt/zlib-1.2.7/lib'. What should I do?
>> 
>> Seungbum
>> 
>