[Rd] mpi.h errors on Mavericks packages

[Martin Morgan]

On 10/03/2014 04:58 PM, Martin Morgan wrote:
> On 10/03/2014 04:17 PM, Daniel Fuka wrote:
>> Dear mac folks,
>>
>> I have started porting a large legacy toolset maintained in windows
>> and heavily mpi laden so it can be used across platforms in R... so I
>> am building a package out of it. On this note, I am noticing that
>> almost all of the mpi dependent packages do not compile on the CRAN
>> repositories.... with the basic issue that it appears it can not find
>> mpi installed:
>>
>> configure: error: "Cannot find mpi.h header file"
>

sorry for the noise! you're after mpi and not openMP. Arrgh Martin

> Hi Dan -- not a mac folk, or particularly expert on the subject, but have you
> looked at section 1.2.1.1 of RShowDoc("R-exts")? The basic idea is
>
> a) check for compiler support via a src/Makevars file that might be like
>
> PKG_CFLAGS = $(SHLIB_OPENMP_CFLAGS)
> PKG_LIBS = $(SHLIB_OPENMP_CFLAGS)
>
> b) conditionally include mpi header files and execute mpi code with
>
> #ifdef SUPPORT_OPENMP
> #include <mpi.h>
> #endif
>
> and similarly for #pragma's and other mpi-isms littered through your code?
> Likely this gets quite tedious for projects making extensive use of openMP.
>
> Martin
>
>
>>
>> I do not see any chatter about mpi issues in the lists since the
>> inception of mavericks.. and possibly this question should go to
>> Simon.. but in case I missed a discussion, or if anyone has any
>> suggestions on how to proceed, or what might be missing from the Rmpi,
>> npRmpi, etc. packages for compilation on Mavericks, it would be
>> greatly appreciated if you could let me know.. and maybe I can help
>> fix the other packages as well.
>>
>> Thanks for any help or pointers to guide me!
>> dan
>>
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