Sorry for the previous mail, I hadn't fully read ./configure --help : all external package options are listed there, including HDF5
As far as I can see in https://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/miscellaneous/external.html and on the PDF manual, not all external packages are mentioned, and this tripped me initially. So my question becomes: please synchronize the output of ./configure --help with manpages and pdf manual :) Thanks again, Marco On 11 July 2016 at 09:57, Marco Zocca <[email protected]> wrote: > Good morning, > > Does the HDF5 functionality need to be explicitly requested at > configure time? I just noticed that my default configuration on a > single-node machine does not compile any relevant symbol. > > I do not have HDF5 installed on my system yet, but I assumed PETSc > includes it by default, or automagically pulls the dependency in at > config time, since the manual doesn't mention anything about it. Do I > have to install HDF5 from source and rebuild PETSc then? > > Thanks in advance, > Marco > > > > --- config options and architecture : > > Configure Options: --configModules=PETSc.Configure > --optionsModule=config.compilerOptions --with-cc=gcc --with-cxx=g++ > --with-fc=gfortran --download-fblaslapack --download-mpich > Working directory: /Users/ocramz/petsc-3.7.2 > Machine platform: > ('Darwin', 'fermi.local', '13.4.0', 'Darwin Kernel Version 13.4.0: Sun > Aug 17 19:50:11 PDT 2014; root:xnu-2422.115.4~1/RELEASE_X86_64', > 'x86_64', 'i386') > Python version: > 2.7.5 (default, Mar 9 2014, 22:15:05) > [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 5.0 (clang-500.0.68)]
