[Pw_forum] installation error: linking to Fortran libraries from C fails

[Phanikumar Pentyala]

First of all, why you want to install QE-4.2? I think it's already version
6 available in online.


Also, OS (ubuntu) very old version. Now many updates and software also not
available in 12 version


On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 7:37 PM, Amel Alhassan <alhassan.amel at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> I am trying to install quantum espresso 4.2.1 in my Ubuntu 12.04 64 bits
> devise.
>
> when trying $./configure I get the following error
>
> configure: error: in `/home/amel/espresso-4.2.1':
>> configure: error: linking to Fortran libraries from C fails
>> See `config.log' for more details.
>
>
> I have tried changing  the include/c_defs.h and clib/memstaat.c
> replacing F77 by gfortran.
>
> Tried to install BLAS, LAPACK, FFT, MPI libraries but they are
> not recognized by the system.
>
> Also tried
> $sudo apt-get install build-essential fftw3-dev gfortran
>
>> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
>
>
> $sudo apt-get install liblapack-dev fftw-dev
>
>> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
>
>
>
> I also tried
>
> $gcc --version
>
>> gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5) 4.6.3
>
>
> $gfortran --version
>
>> GNU Fortran (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5) 4.6.3
>
>
>
> $/opt/mpich2GNU/bin/mpif90 -show
>
> bash: $/opt/mpich2GNU/bin/mpif90: No such file or directory
>
>
>
> Your help is kindly appreciated.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Kind regards,
> Amel Alhassan
>
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