trying to install Scalapack on Fedora 9

Wednesday, 24 September 2008

Hello,

I've been having a lot of trouble trying to get SCALAPACK to install 
properly on my Linux 64 bit installation.

Running 'yum install scalapack.x86_64', the following dependencies get 
installed:

Dependencies Resolved

=============================================================================
  Package                 Arch       Version          Repository 
Size
=============================================================================
Installing:
  scalapack               x86_64     1.7.5-2.fc9      fedora 
  19 M
Installing for dependencies:
  blacs                   x86_64     1.1-26.fc9.1     fedora 
610 k
  blacs-devel             x86_64     1.1-26.fc9.1     fedora 
  72 k
  lam                     x86_64     2:7.1.2-11.fc9   fedora 
1.6 M

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install      4 Package(s)
Update       0 Package(s)
Remove       0 Package(s)

Total download size: 21 M

I tried testing a simple BLAS level 1 test called /usr/bin/xspblas1tst
and got:

[garyc@usc scalapack_installer_0.92]$ /usr/bin/xspblas1tst
/usr/bin/xspblas1tst: error while loading shared libraries: 
liblamf77mpi.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I thought it was odd that LAM shared library was not in the search path, 
so I added an entry into /etc/ld.so.conf as:

/usr/lib64/lam

and ran ldconfig

Now when I ran the BLAS 1 test I got:

[garyc@usc scalapack_installer_0.92]$ /usr/bin/xspblas1tst
/usr/bin/xspblas1tst: symbol lookup error: 
/usr/lib64/lam/liblamf77mpi.so.0: undefined symbol: lam_F_status_ignore

Do you know what could be the problem?  Is the version of the LAM 
library not correct?

I tried the hard way by trying to compile each of the components, but 
that opened up a whole new can of worms.

Thanks!

Gary