[mvapich-discuss] Error building mvapich

[Jonathan Perkins]

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 02:43:55PM -0500, Sameer Abu Asal wrote:
> Hello ,
> 
> I am trying to build mvapich 2-1.9 . Configure is failing with this error:
> 
> checking for library containing dlopen... -ldl
> > checking for library containing ibv_open_device... no
> > *configure: error: 'libibverbs not found. Did you specify
> > --with-ib-libpath=?'*
> 
> 
> even though:  *locate libibverbs*
> *
> *
> 
> > */etc/libibverbs.d
> > */etc/libibverbs.d/mlx4.driver
> > */usr/lib64/libibverbs.so.1
> > **/usr/lib64/libibverbs.so.1.0.0
> > */usr/share/doc/libibverbs-1.1.5
> > /usr/share/doc/libibverbs-1.1.5/AUTHORS
> > /usr/share/doc/libibverbs-1.1.5/COPYING
> > /usr/share/doc/libibverbs-1.1.5/ChangeLog
> 
> 
> 
> Is there a specific version of libibverbs I should have installed ?

Hi, it looks like you don't have libibverbs.so.  This is needed to
develop applications using libibverbs.  You probably need to install the
libibverbs-devel rpm.

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Jonathan Perkins
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