Shouldn't this be fixed by now in PETSc-dev? Begin forwarded message:

From: Satish Balay <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [petsc-users] cannot find 'libz.a' when configuring Date: April 10, 2013 5:21:38 PM CDT To: PETSc users list <[email protected]> Reply-To: PETSc users list <[email protected]>

try using configure option LIBS="-L/opt/zlib-1.2.7/lib -lz'

Satish

On Wed, 10 Apr 2013, Seungbum Koo wrote:

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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