Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > Sean, > > On 15 October 2007 at 12:03, Sean Davis wrote: > | I am trying to build Rmpi on Suse 10.2 linux. While I would like to use > | the RPM version of liblam-7.1.2, I have not been able to do so. It > | seems that Rmpi makes some pretty strong assumptions when trying to > | guess the MPI version. Has anyone successfully built Rmpi against > | lam-7.1.2 recently using R-2.6.0? If so, can you give some pointers > | about where the libraries and header files need to be to have Rmpi "do > | the right thing"? I have perused the configure file in the Rmpi > | distribution without much success. > > On Debian/Ubuntu, I had to 'freeze' LAM at 7.1.1. It failed with the newer > ones, incl 7.1.4. I never really looked too hard why ... as the plan was to > migrate to Open MPI as soon as feasible. And I am happy to report that the > newest Rmpi, with one small additional change that should appear on CRAN > soon, builds fine against Open MPI. If you can, consider migrating from LAM > to Open MPI.
It does. I would like to move over to OpenMPI but have been a bit hesitant because of the support from most third-party softwares with LAM and because of lack of documentation for OpenMPI. However, I have to admit that I haven't looked hard at this option yet. After some playing around, I got lam-7.1.3 compiled from source into default locations (after assuring that -fPIC was used) to work with Rmpi_0.5-4 by doing: CC=mpicc R CMD INSTALL --clean Rmpi_0.5-4.tar.gz Thanks for Martin Morgan for a reply off-list to use mpicc, which removed the headache of trying to line up the directory locations correctly. Sean ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
