Re: [Libmesh-users] Configure questions

[Benjamin S. K. <be...@cf...>]

On most systems where PETSc is installed from source the environment 
variables PETSC_DIR and PETSC_ARCH are used to describe the 
installation.   For example, on my machine, the values for these 
variables are:

hactar(4)$ echo $PETSC_DIR
/usr/local/petsc/petsc-2.1.5
hactar(5)$ echo $PETSC_ARCH
linux


so, for your system I think this should work:

export PETSC_DIR=/usr
export PETSC_ARCH=linux

and re-run configure.

We currently do not support a 'make install' target, so at the moment 
the --prefix=/usr command line argument will have no effect and may be 
omitted.

Let me know if you have any more trouble.  I know of another user 
(right, Denis?) who has exactly your configuration working, so it is 
certainly possible.  I personally don't have access to a Debian machine 
with the PETSc packages installed, so my troubleshooting is a little 
limited...

-Ben