On Fri, 16 Nov 2007, Mads Hoel wrote: > On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:12:15 +0100, Tim Stitt <timothy.stitt at ichec.ie> > wrote: > > > could not read symbols: Bad value > > I haven't seen that error message before, but i looked it up in a search > engine and got 4 cases that might be the solution to your problem, suggesting > to recompile the static library with -fPIC: > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/amd64/howtos/index.xml?part=1&chap=3
Can you post the complete log [compiler, compiler options etc..] of: - how this static library was built - how you are attempting to link it with PETSc -complete error message Also is this linux or linux64? This additional info could give us clues as to whats going wrong. Satish
