Hello,

You may me bumping into conflicts between the apple supplied ompi and your mpi. 
I use modules to force my mpi to the front of the PATH and DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH 
variables.

Doug Reeder
On Dec 15, 2010, at 5:22 PM, Jeff Squyres wrote:

> Sorry for the ginormous delay in replying here; I blame SC'10, Thanksgiving, 
> and the MPI Forum meeting last week...
> 
> 
> On Nov 29, 2010, at 2:12 PM, David Robertson wrote:
> 
>> I'm noticing a strange problem with Open MPI 1.4.2 on Mac OS X 10.6. We use 
>> both Intel Ifort 11.1 and gfortran 4.3 on the same machine and switch 
>> between them to test and debug code.
>> 
>> I had runtime problems when I compiled openmpi in my usual way of no shared 
>> libraries so I switched to shared and it runs now.
> 
> What problems did you have?  OMPI should work fine when compiled statically.
> 
>> However, in order for it to work with ifort I ended up needing to add the 
>> location of my intel compiled Open MPI libraries 
>> (/opt/intelsoft/openmpi/lib) to my DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to 
>> to get codes to compile and/or run with ifort.
> 
> Is this what Intel recommends for anything compiled with ifort on OS X, or is 
> this unique to OMPI-compiled MPI applications?
> 
>> The problem is that adding /opt/intelsoft/openmpi/lib to DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH 
>> broke my Open MPI for gfortran. Now when I try to compile with mpif90 for 
>> gfortran it thinks it's actually trying to compile with ifort still. As soon 
>> as I take the above path out of DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH everything works fine.
>> 
>> Also, when I run ompi_info everything looks right except prefix. It says 
>> /opt/intelsoft/openmpi rather than /opt/gfortransoft/openmpi like it should. 
>> It should be noted that having /opt/intelsoft/openmpi in LD_LIBRARY_PATH 
>> does not produce the same effect.
> 
> I'm not quite clear on your setup, but it *sounds* like you're somehow mixing 
> up 2 different installations of OMPI -- one in /opt/intelsoft and the other 
> in /opt/gfortransoft.
> 
> Can you verify that you're using the "right" mpif77 (and friends) when you 
> intend to, and so on?
> 
> -- 
> Jeff Squyres
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