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

[Satish Balay]

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Satish

On Wed, 10 Apr 2013, Seungbum Koo wrote:

> Thank you. It fixed the problem. But it stopped with other message, saying
> that
> 
> *******************************************************************************
>          UNABLE to CONFIGURE with GIVEN OPTIONS    (see configure.log for
> details):
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> --with-hdf5-dir=/opt/hdf5-1.8.9 did not work
> *******************************************************************************
> 
> I asked up to which version of HDF5 does PETSc support this morning because
> of this problem, thinking if this is a compatibility reason or some sort
> similar.
> 
> I tried to attach the configure.log file but there is 512kb limit to this
> mailing list.
> 
> Any suggestion will help.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Seungbum
> 
> 
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> 
> > 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
> > >
> >
> >
>