[petsc-users] 'Unable to locate PETSc dynamic library' error

[Barry Smith]

   The recommended approach is to use --with-prefix=directory where you want PETSc installed instead of copying files manually after configure and make

   I don't see why —with-thread-safety would affect this but


> On Sep 21, 2023, at 5:07 PM, Di Miao via petsc-users <petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> 
> To whom it may concern,
>  
> In our build system, PETSc/SLEPc is compiled in one place and the *.so lib are then moved to another place for future use. Before we add the ‘—with-thread-safety’ flag, this works well. Now, we would like to run PETSc on multiple threads. As suggested by the manual, we added ‘—with-thread-safety’ flag. The udpated libpetsc.so leads to the following error message:
>  
> Unable to locate PETSc dynamic library 
>  You cannot move the dynamic libraries!
>  
> My question is other than compile PETSc as a static library, is there any other solutions that can let us compile libpetsc.so in one place and distribute it to other folders without causing this error?
>  
> Thank you,
> Di
>  
> [0]PETSC ERROR: --------------------- Error Message --------------------------------------------------------------
> [0]PETSC ERROR: Unable to open file
> [0]PETSC ERROR: Unable to locate PETSc dynamic library 
>  You cannot move the dynamic libraries!
> [0]PETSC ERROR: See https://petsc.org/release/faq/ for trouble shooting.
> [0]PETSC ERROR: Petsc Release Version 3.19.2, Jun 01, 2023 
> [0]PETSC ERROR: Unknown Name on a arch-linux-c-opt named tcadprod39.synopsys.com <http://tcadprod39.synopsys.com/> by tcad Wed Sep 20 02:37:04 2023
> [0]PETSC ERROR: Configure options --with-mpi-dir=/SCRATCH/tcad/ci_2_0/workspace/incremental_build_main at 2/petsc/../tcad_mpi_mpich --with-64-bit-indices=true --with-blaslapack-dir=/SCRATCH/tcad/ci_2_0/workspace/incremental_build_main at 2/petsc/../mkl --with-shared-libraries --with-clean=true --with-debugging=0 --with-mkl_pardiso-dir=/SCRATCH/tcad/ci_2_0/workspace/incremental_build_main at 2/petsc/../mkl COPTFLAGS=-O3 CXXOPTFLAGS=-O3 FOPTFLAGS=-O3 --download-mumps=/SCRATCH/tcad/ci_2_0/workspace/incremental_build_main at 2/petsc/MUMPS_5.6.0.tar.gz --download-scalapack=/SCRATCH/tcad/ci_2_0/workspace/incremental_build_main at 2/petsc/v2.2.0.tar.gz --with-ssl-dir=/SCRATCH/tcad/ci_2_0/workspace/incremental_build_main at 2/petsc/../libressl --with-openmp=true --with-threadsafety=true --with-log=0
> [0]PETSC ERROR: #1 PetscInitialize_DynamicLibraries() at /SCRATCH/tcad/ci_2_0/workspace/incremental_build_main at 2/petsc/petsc-3.19.2/src/sys/dll/reg.c:88
> [0]PETSC ERROR: #2 PetscInitialize_Common() at /SCRATCH/tcad/ci_2_0/workspace/incremental_build_main at 2/petsc/petsc-3.19.2/src/sys/objects/pinit.c:1030
> [0]PETSC ERROR: #3 PetscInitialize() at /SCRATCH/tcad/ci_2_0/workspace/incremental_build_main at 2/petsc/petsc-3.19.2/src/sys/objects/pinit.c:1276
> [0]PETSC ERROR: #4 SlepcInitialize() at /SCRATCH/tcad/ci_2_0/workspace/incremental_build_main at 2/slepc/slepc-3.19.2/src/sys/slepcinit.c:264
> [0]PETSC ERROR: #5 EPSCreate() at /SCRATCH/tcad/ci_2_0/workspace/incremental_build_main at 2/slepc/slepc-3.19.2/src/eps/interface/epsbasic.c:56
> [0]PETSC ERROR: #6 EPSCreate() at /SCRATCH/tcad/ci_2_0/workspace/incremental_build_main at 2/slepc/slepc-3.19.2/src/eps/interface/epsbasic.c:56
> Start calculating extreme eigenvalues..
> [0]PETSC ERROR: ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [0]PETSC ERROR: Caught signal number 11 SEGV: Segmentation Violation, probably memory access out of range
> [0]PETSC ERROR: Try option -start_in_debugger or -on_error_attach_debugger
> [0]PETSC ERROR: or see https://petsc.org/release/faq/#valgrind and https://petsc.org/release/faq/
> [0]PETSC ERROR: configure using --with-debugging=yes, recompile, link, and run
> [0]PETSC ERROR: to get more information on the crash.
> [0]PETSC ERROR: Run with -malloc_debug to check if memory corruption is causing the crash.
> application called MPI_Abort(MPI_COMM_WORLD, 59) - process 0
> [unset]: write_line error; fd=-1 buf=:cmd=abort exitcode=59
> :
> system msg for write_line failure : Bad file descriptor

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