Perhaps the easy fix is to build PETSc as shared libraries. [this is the default anyway]
However wrt pkgconfig: >>>> $ cat arch-linux-c-debug/lib/pkgconfig/petsc.pc prefix=/home/balay/petsc/arch-linux-c-debug exec_prefix=${prefix} includedir=${prefix}/include libdir=${prefix}/lib ccompiler=mpicc cflags_extra=-fPIC -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wno-unknown-pragmas -Wno-stringop-overflow -fstack-protector -fvisibility=hidden -g3 -O0 cflags_dep=-MMD -MP ldflag_rpath=-Wl,-rpath, cxxcompiler=mpicxx cxxflags_extra=-Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wno-strict-aliasing -Wno-unknown-pragmas -fstack-protector -fvisibility=hidden -g -O0 -std=gnu++17 -fPIC fcompiler=mpif90 fflags_extra=-fPIC -Wall -ffree-line-length-0 -Wno-unused-dummy-argument -g -O0 Name: PETSc Description: Library to solve ODEs and algebraic equations Version: 3.16.99 Cflags: -I${includedir} -I/home/balay/petsc/include Libs: -L${libdir} -lpetsc Libs.private: -L/home/balay/soft/mpich-3.4.2/lib -L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/11 -llapack -lblas -lm -lX11 -lstdc++ -ldl -lmpifort -lmpi -lgfortran -lm -lgfortran -lm -lgcc_s -lquadmath -lstdc++ -ldl <<<< i.e 'Libs' provides the petsc library [usable when built as shared] - and 'Libs.private' provides all the dependencies [that are required in a static build] Satish On Tue, 22 Feb 2022, Palmer, Bruce J via petsc-users wrote: > Hi, > > We recently switched the CMake configuration on our GridPACK application to > use the PkgConfig utility instead of Jeb Brown’s FindPETSc.cmake module. This > seems to work on a number of platforms but it is failing to link on others. > It appears that the build cannot find the LAPACK and BLAS libraries. The > PETSc library I’m linking to (v3.16.3) was configured with > -download-f2cblaslapack so it should have these libraries, but when I try and > link one of the test applications in GridPACK I get the errors > > > /share/apps/gcc/6.1.0/bin/g++ -pthread -g -rdynamic > CMakeFiles/greetings.dir/test/greetings.cpp.o -o greetings > -Wl,-rpath,/qfs/projects/ops/rh6/openmpi/3.0.1/gcc/6.1.0/lib > ../math/libgridpack_math.a libgridpack_parallel.a > ../timer/libgridpack_timer.a ../environment/libgridpack_environment.a > ../math/libgridpack_math.a > /pic/projects/gridpack/software/boost_1_65_0/lib/libboost_mpi.a > /pic/projects/gridpack/software/boost_1_65_0/lib/libboost_serialization.a > /pic/projects/gridpack/software/boost_1_65_0/lib/libboost_random.a > /pic/projects/gridpack/software/boost_1_65_0/lib/libboost_filesystem.a > /pic/projects/gridpack/software/boost_1_65_0/lib/libboost_system.a > /pic/projects/gridpack/software/ga-5.7/build_pr/lib/libga++.a > /pic/projects/gridpack/software/ga-5.7/build_pr/lib/libga.a > /pic/projects/gridpack/software/ga-5.7/build_pr/lib/libarmci.a -lrt > /usr/lib64/librt.so /usr/lib64/libdl.so > /qfs/projects/ops/rh6/openmpi/3.0.1/gcc/6.1.0/lib/libmpi.so > ../timer/libgridpack_timer.a libgri dpack_pa rallel.a ../configuration/libgridpack_configuration.a /pic/projects/gridpack/software/petsc-3.16.3/linux-openmpi-gnu-cxx-complex-opt/lib/libpetsc.a > > /pic/projects/gridpack/software/petsc-3.16.3/linux-openmpi-gnu-cxx-complex-opt/lib/libpetsc.a(zstart.o): > In function `petscinitializef_': > > /pic/projects/gridpack/software/petsc-3.16.3/src/sys/objects/ftn-custom/zstart.c:280: > undefined reference to `mpi_init_' > > /pic/projects/gridpack/software/petsc-3.16.3/linux-openmpi-gnu-cxx-complex-opt/lib/libpetsc.a(baijfact.o): > In function `MatSolve_SeqBAIJ_N': > > /pic/projects/gridpack/software/petsc-3.16.3/src/mat/impls/baij/seq/baijfact.c:1462: > undefined reference to `zgemv_' > > /pic/projects/gridpack/software/petsc-3.16.3/src/mat/impls/baij/seq/baijfact.c:1475: > undefined reference to `zgemv_' > > /pic/projects/gridpack/software/petsc-3.16.3/src/mat/impls/baij/seq/baijfact.c:1478: > undefined reference to `zgemv_' > > /pic/projects/gridpack/software/petsc-3.16.3/linux-openmpi-gnu-cxx-complex-opt/lib/libpetsc.a(baijfact.o): > In function `MatSolve_SeqBAIJ_N_NaturalOrdering': > > /pic/projects/gridpack/software/petsc-3.16.3/src/mat/impls/baij/seq/baijfact.c:1407: > undefined reference to `zgemv_' > > /pic/projects/gridpack/software/petsc-3.16.3/src/mat/impls/baij/seq/baijfact.c:1420: > undefined reference to `zgemv_' > > /pic/projects/gridpack/software/petsc-3.16.3/linux-openmpi-gnu-cxx-complex-opt/lib/libpetsc.a(baijfact.o):/pic/projects/gridpack/software/petsc-3.16.3/sr > > I suspect that the reason it worked for others and not for me is that they > had viable blas and lapack libraries in their path and I don’t. Is there > anything special you need to do to make sure that the build is pointed at the > libraries that get created with the -download-f2cblaslapack option? > > Bruce Palmer >