Damn PETSc users never know to send the configure.log :-) It is odd that error message has a question mark in it. I have fixed that. The thing is this is during the generic test of the blas/lapack library so I am not sure specific messages about f2cblaslapack belong here. Rather blaslapack.py should be smart enough to know that if quad precision is used f2cblaslapack is the only acceptable blas and not let it get to this point of testing other blases. Barry On Jul 13, 2012, at 11:37 PM, Jed Brown wrote:

******************************************************************************* UNABLE to CONFIGURE with GIVEN OPTIONS (see configure.log for details): ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Could not use downloaded f-blas-lapack? *******************************************************************************

What is the intent here? Make f-blas-lapack work or tell the user about f2cblaslapack?