Re: [IMP-users] Problems with installing IMP on Ubuntu 15.04

[Ben Webb <>]

On 5/23/15 11:37 AM, Dennis FoxLetterman wrote:
> I have installed all prerequisites for IMP (even libTAU and openCV which
> IMP cannot find, but that problem can I deal with later) but IMP won't
> install.
>
> In brief, I obtain following error message:
>
> Makefile:127: recipe for target 'all' failed

You need to look further up in the output to see the real error - that's 
just the summary - grep for "error" and you'll see:

/usr/bin/ld: /usr/local/lib/libfftw3.a(mapflags.o): relocation 
R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata' can not be used when making a shared 
object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/local/lib/libfftw3.a: error adding symbols: Bad value
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

The problem is that you only appear to have the static (.a) library for 
FFTW, but IMP needs the dynamic (.so) library. This is provided by the 
fftw3-dev package on Ubuntu (at least in 14.04, which we do build 
packages for). (Or possibly you have both but the one in /usr/local is 
found before the system version, in which case the simplest solution 
would be to delete the one in /usr/local.)

> Also, as you can see in the log file, I have received many warnings
> concerning PyObject..

No, these are normal, but out of our control (since the code is 
generated by SWIG). In fact, in our nightly builds we filter out these 
warnings to reduce confusion.

	Ben
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