[cig-commits] [commit] devel: added a sentence about Zlib -lz to the users manual (a8d9a61)

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Repository : ssh://geoshell/specfem2d

On branch  : devel
Link       : https://github.com/geodynamics/specfem2d/compare/d1837bcd230c90f374df44b7608ea5ec6dbf000d...5729b51ab6c4a71ceba52762c105f3bc792eb9af

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commit a8d9a61d2eee9d642da013321b89d785f3d1c7f3
Author: Dimitri Komatitsch <komatitsch at lma.cnrs-mrs.fr>
Date:   Sat Feb 8 16:16:15 2014 +0100

    added a sentence about Zlib -lz to the users manual


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a8d9a61d2eee9d642da013321b89d785f3d1c7f3
 doc/USER_MANUAL/manual_SPECFEM2D.pdf | Bin 3193366 -> 3193734 bytes
 doc/USER_MANUAL/manual_SPECFEM2D.tex |   4 ++++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/USER_MANUAL/manual_SPECFEM2D.pdf b/doc/USER_MANUAL/manual_SPECFEM2D.pdf
index b2ecffe..1eda5c0 100644
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diff --git a/doc/USER_MANUAL/manual_SPECFEM2D.tex b/doc/USER_MANUAL/manual_SPECFEM2D.tex
index 3508cf4..66bf760 100644
--- a/doc/USER_MANUAL/manual_SPECFEM2D.tex
+++ b/doc/USER_MANUAL/manual_SPECFEM2D.tex
@@ -347,6 +347,10 @@ If you use the Intel ifort compiler to compile the code, we recommend that you u
 For further details about the installation of SCOTCH,
 go to subdirectory \texttt{scotch\_5.1.11/} and read \texttt{INSTALL.txt}. You may want to download more recent versions of SCOTCH in the future from \urlwithparentheses{http://www.labri.fr/perso/pelegrin/scotch/scotch_en.html} . Support for the METIS graph partitioner has been discontinued because SCOTCH is more recent and performs better.
 
+When compiling the SCOTCH source code, if you get a message such as: "ld: cannot find -lz", 
+the Zlib compression development library is probably missing on your machine and you will need to install it or ask your system administrator to 
+do so. On Linux machines the package is often called "zlib1g-dev" or similar. (thus "sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev" would install it)
+
 You may edit the \texttt{Makefile} for more specific modifications. Especially, there are several options available:
 %
 \begin{itemize}