[gmx-users] Installation with non standard location of fftw3

[Justin A. Lemkul]

Graham Kettlewell wrote:
> Hi Justin,
> 
> I thought I might stop clogging the other people's inboxes, and mail you directly.
> 

It's better to keep things on the list.  I don't necessarily have a final 
solution; maybe someone else will!

> I tried installing only the double precision version, and it failed the same way, so I tried doing the single precision, make distclean, and then the double precision. Exactly the same error:
> 
> checking for fftw3.h... yes
> checking for main in -lfftw3f... no
> configure: error: Cannot find fftw3f library
> 
> The contents of the lib directory now:
> 
> -sh-3.2$ cd fftw/lib/
> -sh-3.2$ ls -l
> total 4464
> -rw-r--r-- 1 grahamk uowstf 2230376 Jun 30 15:28 libfftw3.a
> -rw-r--r-- 1 grahamk uowstf 2200524 Jun 30 15:24 libfftw3f.a
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 grahamk uowstf     956 Jun 30 15:24 libfftw3f.la
> -rw-r--r-- 1 grahamk uowstf   44862 Jun 30 15:24 libfftw3f_threads.a
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 grahamk uowstf     980 Jun 30 15:24 libfftw3f_threads.la
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 grahamk uowstf     953 Jun 30 15:28 libfftw3.la
> -rw-r--r-- 1 grahamk uowstf   44722 Jun 30 15:28 libfftw3_threads.a
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 grahamk uowstf     977 Jun 30 15:28 libfftw3_threads.la
> drwxr-xr-x 2 grahamk uowstf    4096 Jun 30 15:28 pkgconfig
> -sh-3.2$
> 

Indeed, now I am stuck.  Your /lib directory contains what it should, as far as 
I can tell.  Any warnings/errors from the compiler that would suggest something 
broke?  There may also be some other useful diagnostic information in config.log.

-Justin

> Thanks again, and sorry to be a pain.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
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Justin A. Lemkul
Ph.D. Candidate
ICTAS Doctoral Scholar
Department of Biochemistry
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA
jalemkul[at]vt.edu | (540) 231-9080
http://www.bevanlab.biochem.vt.edu/Pages/Personal/justin

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