[Rd] Problem building R with Intel MKL v10 BLAS

[Hin-Tak Leung]

This part "-lmkl_gf_lp64.so -lmkl_gnu_thread.so -lmkl_core.so"
looks wrong - it should be "-lmkl_gf_lp64 -lmkl_gnu_thread -lmkl_core"
without the ".so" part.

I don't know how BLAS_LIBS does it, but when I was linking against
mkl 9, all I did which different from the usual build (diff from the
two rpm spec file I wrote) was 3 changes:

export LDFLAGS=...  -L/opt/intel/mkl/9.1/lib/em64t/
export FFLAGS=... -ff2c
./configure ... --with-blas="-lmkl -lguide -lpthread"

The FFLAGS ezport was needed because of difference between g77 and 
gfortran.


Michael Braun wrote:
> NO
> 
> Hi.  I'm not sure if this is an R-help or R-devel problem, so I'm 
> starting here in the hope that someone can help (and willing to go to 
> the other list if it's more appropriate).  I think I am following all of 
> the instructions in the various manuals, but clearly I am missing something.
> 
> I have an Intel EM64T Dell with 2 dual-core Xeon processors running Red 
> Hat EL5.  I would like to build R 2.6.1 with lots of debugging and 
> profiling options, and link it to the processor-specific Intel MKL blas. 
> The problem is that after I compile R, and do R CMD config BLAS_LIBS, 
> the response is
> -L/usr/local/lib64/R/lib -lRblas.
> 
> This tells me that R is not linked to the Intel BLAS at all.
> 
> My config.site file for R is:
> 
> #! /bin/sh
> 
> R_PAPERSIZE=letter
> CFLAGS="-g -O2 -p -pg"
> CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/intel/mkl/10.0.1.014/include -I/usr/include 
> -I/usr/local/include"
> LIBnn=lib64
> BLAS_LIBS="-L/opt/intel/mkl/10.0.1.014/lib/em64t -Wl,--start-group 
> -lmkl_gf_lp64.so -lmkl_gnu_thread.so -lmkl_core.so -l -l -l -Wl, 
> --end-group -lguide -lpthread -lm"
> 
> I have set the CONFIG_SITE environment variable to the location of the 
> config.site.file.
> I am doing everything as superuser.
> 
> The command I am using for configure is
> 
> ./configure --disable-R-profiling --with-blas=no
> 
> following the instructions in the R-admin file regarding enabling 
> C-level profiling and linking to the external BLAS libraries referenced 
> in the config.site file.
> 
> The BLAS_LIBS files are different than in the R-admin manual because of 
> changes in the Intel MKL for version 10.  These libraries, in this 
> order, were taken from the Intel MKL for Linux User's Guide, chapter 5.
> 
> So, still no luck linking to the optimized BLAS.  I'd appreciate any 
> suggestions.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Michael
> 
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