Mauro, on many x86_64-linux machines you need to link with /usr/X11R6/lib64. It depends on the version/distro you are using.
-sanjay Barry Smith wrote: > > Please send configure.log and make_log and bmake/$PETSC_ARCH/petscconf > > On Jan 1, 2008, at 9:21 PM, Pivi, Mauro Torino Francesco wrote: > >> I have just installed PETSC on a x86_64-linux machine. >> >> I am at the level of running the first exercises and after "make" and >> running the ex2.c file in parallel I get the message >> >> "./ex2: error while loading shared libraries: libX11.so.6: cannot >> open shared object file: No such file or directory" >> >> WHAT SHOULD I DO?? >> I spent few days with this. Please, help. >> >> PS: I used the link found the file libX11.so.6 in the directory >> /usr/X11R6/lib. Thus I run configure.py again with the option >> --with-x-include=/usr/X11R6/lib >> But NO IMPROOVEMENT. >> >> Thank you! >> Mauro >> > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sanjay Govindjee, PhD, PE Voice: (510) 642-6060 Professor of Civil Engineering FAX: (510) 643-8928 WWW: http://www.ce.berkeley.edu/~sanjay E-mail: sanjay at ce.berkeley.edu 709 Davis Hall Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Materials Department of Civil Engineering University of California Berkeley, CA 94720-1710 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
