Install cannot find -lpetsc during installation

[Scott Baker]

During a install using distutils I get the following error:

~/anaconda3/compiler_compat/ld: cannot find -lpetsc

And I tried to symbolically link -lpetsc to -libpetsc since I could find -libpetsc in:

~/petsc/arch-linux-c-debug/lib

However this did not work.

[Lisandro Dalcin]

If you do not have libpetsc.so in /home/s/petsc/arch-linux-c-debug/lib, then your PETSc build is somehow broken.

[Scott Baker]

Attempted to reinstall the PETSc build and could not find libpetsc.so in there. Contacting the people at PETSc about this..

[Lisandro Dalcin]

Can I close this issue?

[Scott Baker]

yes