[R-sig-hpc] Problem installing Rmpi with OpenMP

[Mario Valle]

Solved tanks to Hao Yu, Rmpi maintainer.
The steps are:
Download the Rmpi_0.5-8.tar.gz kit
>
> R CMD INSTALL \
> --configure-args="--with-Rmpi-include=/path_to_mpi_include \
> --with-Rmpi-libpath=/path_to_mpi_lib \
> --with-Rmpi-type=OPENMPI" Rmpi_0.5-8.tar.gz
>
> Once done compiling, try to see if Rmpi can find all mpi libs
> R CMD ldd path_to_Rmpi.so
>
Hope can be useful to someone.
				mario
Mario Valle wrote:
> I'm trying to install Rmpi on our new cluster under 2.11.0 (linux)
> After loading OpenMPI, inside R I execute:
> 
>   install.packages("Rmpi", 
> configure.args=c("--with-mpi=/usr/mpi/gcc/openmpi-1.4.1", 
> "--with-mpi-type=OPENMPI"))
> trying URL 'http://stat.ethz.ch/CRAN/src/contrib/Rmpi_0.5-8.tar.gz'
> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 87528 bytes (85 Kb)
> opened URL
> ==================================================
> downloaded 85 Kb
> 
> * installing *source* package âRmpiâ ...
> checking for gcc... gcc -std=gnu99
> 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 -std=gnu99 accepts -g... yes
> checking for gcc -std=gnu99 option to accept ISO C89... none needed
> Trying to find mpi.h ...
> Found in /usr/mpi/gcc/openmpi-1.4.1/include
> Trying to find libmpi.so or libmpich.a ...
> checking for main in -lmpi... no
> libmpi not found. exiting...
> ERROR: configuration failed for package âRmpiâ
> * removing â/gpfs/home/xt-home/mvalle/apps/R-2.11.0/library/Rmpiâ
> 
> The downloaded packages are in
>          â/tmp/RtmpaLhj2t/downloaded_packagesâ
> Updating HTML index of packages in '.Library'
> Warning message:
> In install.packages("Rmpi", configure.args = 
> c("--with-mpi=/usr/mpi/gcc/openmpi-1.4.1",  :
>    installation of package 'Rmpi' had non-zero exit status
>  >
> 
> Our IT says that I should specify the use of the shared libraries and 
> not the static ones, because openmpi 1.4.1 does not provide these.
> 
> Can you help me to find the correct configure.vars string?
> Thanks a lot!
> 			mario
> 
> 

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