[petsc-users] "Could not find a suitable archiver. Use --with-ar to specify an archiver"

[Balay, Satish]

Its best to stick with one list - so will follow up on petsc-maint.

Satish

On Fri, 26 Oct 2018, avatar wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> When I try to configure PETSc to connect Matlab with the following command
> ./petsc-3.8.3/configure ??with-matlab
> , it prompts
> ===============================================================================
>              Configuring PETSc to compile on your system
> ===============================================================================
> TESTING: checkArchiver from config.setCompilers(config/BuildSystem/config/setCompilers.py:1184)                  *******************************************************************************
>          UNABLE to CONFIGURE with GIVEN OPTIONS    (see configure.log for details):
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Could not find a suitable archiver.  Use --with-ar to specify an archiver.
> *******************************************************************************
> 
> 
> 
> I am a newbie on Petsc. Could you please tell me how I should specify an archiver?  I am on MacOX system. I have tried many ways but it still does not work.
> 
> 
> Thank you very much for your help.
> 
> 
> Best,
> Joe