Package: freefem++ Version: 3.61.1+dfsg1-4 Severity: normal freefem++ now Build-Depends on petsc dev packages. But the configuration can't detect it, it doesn't know which directory to look in.
The default petsc directory is /usr/lib/petsc (links to the latest petsc-real unless an alternative is set manually) but the freefem++ configuration doesn't look there (odd, given the large number of directories it does look in). But in your case if you want to specify petsc-complex (for the generic case, without specifying the petsc version), you'll to get it to look in /usr/lib/petscdir/complex. Except I haven't created that symlink yet, sorry about that. I'll upload another petsc version for it. To keep it symmetric, look then for the real version in /usr/lib/petscdir/real rather than /usr/lib/petsc. (The idea of /usr/lib/petsc is to represent the default petsc for when you don't actually care what the default is, real or complex or which version) Note that I'd expect client packages to select either petsc-real or petsc-complex. I wouldn't expect freefem++ to be able to use both from the same freefem++ binary, unless they've done something particularly funky with their petsc handling. If you want both you probably have to run 2 separate builds for 2 binaries, freefem++-real and freefem++-complex. We don't yet have other packages using petsc-complex to compare with, apart from slepc which builds separate real and complex libs. dolfin will use petsc-complex in the future, but that is not ready yet. Separately, I've uploaded petsc 3.10.3+dfsg1-4 which provides dummy packages libpetsc-real-dev and libpetsc-complex-dev that you will be able to use in Build-Depends. This will save having to update the petsc version whenever there is a petsc upgrade. (petsc-real was already provided by petsc-dev but I hadn't previously created a versionless dummy package for petsc-complex). It's waiting in the NEW queue. Drew -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages freefem++ depends on: ii freeglut3 2.8.1-3 ii libarpack2 3.6.3-1 ii libatlas3-base [libblas.so.3] 3.10.3-7+b1 ii libblas3 [libblas.so.3] 3.8.0-2 ii libc6 2.28-4 ii libgcc1 1:8.2.0-14 ii libgl1 1.1.0-1 ii libglu1-mesa [libglu1] 9.0.0-2.1 ii libhdf5-103 1.10.4+repack-8 ii libopenblas-base [libblas.so.3] 0.3.5+ds-1 ii libopenmpi3 3.1.3-9 ii libstdc++6 8.2.0-14 ii libumfpack5 1:5.4.0+dfsg-1 freefem++ recommends no packages. freefem++ suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
