[R-sig-hpc] Installing gputools fails on Ubuntu 14.04LTS

[Charles Determan]

If you download directory from the github repo you aren't provided with a
'configure' file but the 'configure.ac' file (which is in the src/
directory of your gputools directory).  As such none of compilation
instructions, which are rather complex for CUDA, are being passed to your
compiler which will create the gputools.so file you are looking for.  You
first need use the 'autoconf' program to create the 'configure' file.

autoconf configure.ac > configure
# make executable
chmod +x configure

Then try it again, report back if you have further problems.

Regards,

Charles

On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 12:25 PM, Erol Biceroglu <
erol.biceroglu at alumni.utoronto.ca> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to install gputools on Ubuntu 14.04LTS and I'm not having much
> luck.  I'm not sure if it helps, but here's the R info that's output when I
> run it:
>
>
> R version 3.2.0 (2015-04-16) -- "Full of Ingredients"
> Copyright (C) 2015 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>
>
> Here are the steps I've taken so far:
> *1) Run the following in the terminal:*
>
> *git clone https://github.com/nullsatz/gputools.git
> <https://github.com/nullsatz/gputools.git>*
>
> -This creates a "gputools" folder in my /home directory
>
> *2)  Then run the following in the terminal:*
>
> *R CMD build gputools*
>
> -This creates the gputools_0.5.tar.gz in my home folder
>
> *3) Then I run the following command (which is causing issues)*
>
> *R CMD INSTALL --configure-args="--with-nvcc=/usr/local/cuda/bin/nvcc
> --with-r-lib=/usr/lib/R/lib --with-r=/usr/lib/R/ " gputools_0.5.tar.gz*
>
> and I get the following output:
>
> ** installing to library ‘/home/erol/R/library’*
> ** installing *source* package ‘gputools’ ...*
> *** libs*
> *Warning: no source files found*
> *** R*
> *** preparing package for lazy loading*
> *** help*
> **** installing help indices*
> *** building package indices*
> *** testing if installed package can be loaded*
> *Error in library.dynam(lib, package, package.lib) : *
> *  shared object ‘gputools.so’ not found*
> *Error: loading failed*
> *Execution halted*
> *ERROR: loading failed*
> ** removing ‘/home/erol/R/library/gputools’*
> ** restoring previous ‘/home/erol/R/library/gputools’*
>
> I've checked the paths, and found my '*libR.so*' tucked away all alone in
> */usr/lib/R/lib*, but I don't know where *gputools.so* is and I can't find
> it by searching.
>
> Any feedback on how to proceed would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Regards,
>
> Erol Biceroglu
>
>
> *erol.biceroglu at alumni.utoronto.ca <erol.biceroglu at alumni.utoronto.ca>*
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