[R-sig-hpc] Rmpi, lam, & Fedora 10

Hao Yu hyu at stats.uwo.ca
Tue May 12 18:19:01 CEST 2009


When you install lam, make sure to enable shared lib. The default one is
static lib.  Rmpi used to be OK with static mpi lib. Not any more.

Hao

Richard A. Bilonick wrote:
> I'm still working on getting Rmpi working on CentOS 5.3. At the same
> time, I thought I would try to install it on a dual opteron system with
> Fedora 10.
>
> I was able to install & boot lam and check to make sure it is working. I
> then installed Rmpi (telling it where to find things) and it compiled
> without any errors or warnings. So I'm making progress.
>
> However, when I start R (64-bit version 2.9.0) and load Rmpi I get:
>
>> library(Rmpi)
> Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) :
>   unable to load shared library
> '/usr/lib64/R/library/Rmpi/libs/Rmpi.so':
>   libmpi.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> Error in library(Rmpi) : .First.lib failed for 'Rmpi'
> Error in dyn.unload(file.path(libpath, "libs", paste("Rmpi", .Platform
> $dynlib.ext,  :
>   dynamic/shared library '/usr/lib64/R/library/Rmpi/libs/Rmpi.so' was
> not loaded
>
>
> I'm not sure what the difference is between Rmpi.so and Rmpi.so.0.
>
> [goldy at dom libs]$ ll /usr/lib64/R/library/Rmpi/libs/Rmpi.so
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 109431 2009-05-12
> 09:48 /usr/lib64/R/library/Rmpi/libs/Rmpi.so
>
> Any ideas on what went wrong and how to fix it?
>
> I've included the output from installing Rmpi below.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Rick B.
>
>
>
> [root at dom Download]# R CMD INSTALL Rmpi_0.5-7.tar.gz
> --configure-args=--with-mpi=/usr/lib64/lam
> * Installing to library \u2018/usr/lib64/R/library\u2019
> * Installing *source* package \u2018Rmpi\u2019 ...
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
> checking for suffix of executables...
> checking for suffix of object files... o
> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
> checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
> checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
> Try to find mpi.h ...
> Found in /usr/lib64/lam/include
> Try to find libmpi.so or libmpich.a
> Found libmpi in /usr/lib64/lam/lib
> Try to find liblam.so ...
> Found liblam in /usr/lib64/lam/lib
> checking for openpty in -lutil... yes
> checking for main in -lpthread... yes
> configure: creating ./config.status
> config.status: creating src/Makevars
> ** libs
> gcc -m64 -std=gnu99 -I/usr/include/R -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"\"
> -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"\"
> -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" -I/usr/lib64/lam/include -DMPI2 -DLAM -fPIC
> -I/usr/local/include    -fpic  -O2 -g -pipe -Wall
> -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector
> --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic -c RegQuery.c -o
> RegQuery.o
> gcc -m64 -std=gnu99 -I/usr/include/R -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"\"
> -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"\"
> -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" -I/usr/lib64/lam/include -DMPI2 -DLAM -fPIC
> -I/usr/local/include    -fpic  -O2 -g -pipe -Wall
> -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector
> --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic -c Rmpi.c -o Rmpi.o
> gcc -m64 -std=gnu99 -I/usr/include/R -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"\"
> -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"\"
> -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" -I/usr/lib64/lam/include -DMPI2 -DLAM -fPIC
> -I/usr/local/include    -fpic  -O2 -g -pipe -Wall
> -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector
> --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic -c conversion.c -o
> conversion.o
> gcc -m64 -std=gnu99 -I/usr/include/R -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"\"
> -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"\"
> -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" -I/usr/lib64/lam/include -DMPI2 -DLAM -fPIC
> -I/usr/local/include    -fpic  -O2 -g -pipe -Wall
> -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector
> --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic -c internal.c -o
> internal.o
> gcc -m64 -std=gnu99 -shared -L/usr/local/lib64 -o Rmpi.so RegQuery.o
> Rmpi.o conversion.o internal.o -L/usr/lib64/lam/lib -lmpi -llam -lutil
> -lpthread -fPIC -L/usr/lib64/R/lib -lR
> ** R
> ** demo
> ** inst
> ** preparing package for lazy loading
> ** help
> *** installing help indices
>  >>> Building/Updating help pages for package 'Rmpi'
>      Formats: text html latex example
>   hosts                             text    html    latex
>   internal                          text    html    latex
>   mpi.abort                         text    html    latex
>   mpi.apply                         text    html    latex   example
>   mpi.barrier                       text    html    latex
>   mpi.bcast                         text    html    latex
>   mpi.bcast.Robj                    text    html    latex
>   mpi.bcast.cmd                     text    html    latex
>   mpi.cart.coords                   text    html    latex   example
>   mpi.cart.create                   text    html    latex   example
>   mpi.cart.get                      text    html    latex   example
>   mpi.cart.rank                     text    html    latex   example
>   mpi.cart.shift                    text    html    latex   example
>   mpi.cartdim.get                   text    html    latex   example
>   mpi.comm                          text    html    latex   example
>   mpi.comm.disconnect               text    html    latex
>   mpi.comm.free                     text    html    latex
>   mpi.comm.inter                    text    html    latex
>   mpi.comm.set.errhandler           text    html    latex
>   mpi.comm.spawn                    text    html    latex
>   mpi.const                         text    html    latex
>   mpi.dims.create                   text    html    latex   example
>   mpi.exit                          text    html    latex
>   mpi.finalize                      text    html    latex
>   mpi.gather                        text    html    latex   example
>   mpi.gather.Robj                   text    html    latex   example
>   mpi.get.count                     text    html    latex
>   mpi.get.processor.name            text    html    latex
>   mpi.get.sourcetag                 text    html    latex
>   mpi.iapply                        text    html    latex
>   mpi.info                          text    html    latex
>   mpi.init.sprng                    text    html    latex
>   mpi.intercomm.merge               text    html    latex
>   mpi.parSim                        text    html    latex
>   mpi.parapply                      text    html    latex   example
>   mpi.probe                         text    html    latex
>   mpi.realloc                       text    html    latex
>   mpi.reduce                        text    html    latex
>   mpi.remote.exec                   text    html    latex   example
>   mpi.scatter                       text    html    latex   example
>   mpi.scatter.Robj                  text    html    latex   example
>   mpi.send                          text    html    latex   example
>   mpi.send.Robj                     text    html    latex
>   mpi.sendrecv                      text    html    latex   example
>   mpi.setup.rng                     text    html    latex
>   mpi.spawn.Rslaves                 text    html    latex   example
>   mpi.universe.size                 text    html    latex
>   mpi.wait                          text    html    latex
> ** building package indices ...
> * DONE (Rmpi)
> [root at dom Download]#
>
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