[Bioc-devel] OpenMP on Mac OS "Mavericks" build server morelia

[Ulrich Bodenhofer]

Hi Dan,

Thanks for your reply!

On our Mavericks machine (10.9.5 with XCode 6.1), there was no OpenMP 
installed at all. The configure script correctly found that out and 
compiled our package without OpenMP support. On morelia, however, the 
configure script seems to enforce OpenMP or at least thinks there is 
some OpenMP installed. And then, during compilation, the include file 
omp.h is not found. Maybe omp.h has to be prefixed with some directory, 
I don't know. Do you know of any other Bioconductor package that 
supports OpenMP on the Mavericks platform - to check out how this 
package does it?

For the time being, the workaround of switching off OpenMP entirely on 
Mac platforms seems to solve the problem: our version 0.99.5 at last 
builds smoothly on all four platforms.

One more question: is it generally a good idea to build binary packages 
using OpenMP? What if somebody tries to install and run a package built 
with OpenMP on a Mac or Windows machine that has no OpenMP? I would 
rather expect the Mac and Windows binary packages to be built for 
maximum compatibility with standard systems. If a more experienced user 
wants to optimize the package for his/her platform, he/she can compile 
the source package him-/herself.

Thanks and best regards,
Ulrich


Am 13.04.15 um 19:22 schrieb Dan Tenenbaum:
> Hi Ulrich,
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> [...
> How did you set up OpenMP on your Mavericks machine?
> Dan
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