R help - Jun 2004 - Compiling R with Intel compilers - recommended options?

Hi,

I'm a sysadmin who's been tasked with installing R on our 1000-node 
compute cluster.
I have licences for the Intel C and FORTRAN compilers, so I'm using the 
following to compile:

CFLAGS="-O2 -axWK"
FFLAGS=$CFLAGS
CXXFLAGS=$CFLAGS

CC=icc
F77=ifort
CXX=icc

FPICFLAGS=-fpic

./configure --without-x --without-tcltk

The compilation seems to go OK, with a few warnings.  What concerns me 
is when I run the make check - how long should this take?  I've had one 
running for over 12 hours now, and it's still on:

running code in 'base-Ex.R' ...

and hasn't produced any output since; it just sits there burning CPU.  
I guess my question is:  I'm sure someone has successfully compiled R 
on X86 Linux using the Intel compilers before - what options did you 
use to make it work?  And how long should this check phase take?

Many thanks...

Tim

-- 
Dr Tim Cutts
Informatics Systems Group
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK

What OS and hardware is this?  Eventually you mention `X86 Linux' but are
you using x86 Linux and if so how fast processors?  On a 3GHz machine make
check takes a couple of minutes using gcc (and in our experience Portland
Group is faster than gcc -- we have not tried Intel as local advice
suggests it is slower than PG).

Which version of R?  R 1.9.0 does this with gcc 3.4.0 on Linux ix86, at
the first use of LAPACK.  So if you are not trying 1.9.1beta (to be
released on Monday), please do so.  After that, make check does give
output so where exactly does it hang, and if you interrupt that check, how
far has it got in the output file?

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Tim Cutts wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm a sysadmin who's been tasked with installing R on our 1000-node
> compute cluster.
> I have licences for the Intel C and FORTRAN compilers, so I'm using the
> following to compile:
> 
> CFLAGS="-O2 -axWK"
> FFLAGS=$CFLAGS
> CXXFLAGS=$CFLAGS
> 
> CC=icc
> F77=ifort
> CXX=icc
> 
> FPICFLAGS=-fpic
> 
> ./configure --without-x --without-tcltk
> 
> The compilation seems to go OK, with a few warnings.  What concerns me 
> is when I run the make check - how long should this take?  I've had one
> running for over 12 hours now, and it's still on:
> 
> running code in 'base-Ex.R' ...
> 
> and hasn't produced any output since; it just sits there burning CPU.  
> I guess my question is:  I'm sure someone has successfully compiled R 
> on X86 Linux using the Intel compilers before - what options did you 
> use to make it work?  
Did you search the archives?  I found a lot of hits, none recent for ix86 
Linux.
> And how long should this check phase take?
-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
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