I had to make some changes to lam for fc6, and in my testing it is finding the
libs just fine.  I'll backport those changes to fc5 when I a spare round tuit or
two.

OK, a few things.  Lam and openmpi are designed to be alternatives for mpicc, so
if you have openmpi installed, mpicc may actually be pointing to it instead.  I
bring this up because the exact error messages you are quoting are whats
expected when you are using the openmpi mpicc and don't have the lam-libs
packages for all relevant archs installed (eg. both lam-libs x86_64 and i386 on
x86_64 machines).  So, I would check that.  In the meantime, I'm building lam
7.1.2-8.fc5 right now.  The same package works properly and finds all of its
libs properly on fc6 and so should work on fc5 as well.  It's built to be
installed alongside openmpi 1.1-6 or later (earlier versions of openmpi will
attempt to use a different method than lam for resolving which should be the
system wide default mpi implementation, so symlinks can easily get confused if
you don't have the right version of openmpi installed along side the right
version of lam...in the future this won't be a problem, but for lam-7.1.2-8 I
had to make the change which essentially results in a flag day needing a
simultaneous update of both lam and openmpi).  It is not sufficient to just
update these RPMs.  It would be best to deinstall the previous lam and install
the new one afterwards (for scriptlet reasons).  Once the packages are done
building, I'll place them at
http://people.redhat.com/dledford/Infiniband/lam/7.1.2/8.fc5 so that you can
verify they work on your machine.  The matching openmpi rpms will be in
http://people.redhat.com/dledford/Infiniband/openmpi/1.1/6.fc5

Hi,

I had solved the problem by removing both the lam and lam-libs packages that yum
had updated and installed respectively and reverting to the single lam rpm that
shipped with FC5. I should note here that I hadn't tweaked the lam installation
in any way and I was using what anaconda gave me. That was the case in both my
64-bit and 32-bit machines. In both types the update caused the same problem.

I tried to uninstall all existing lam and openmpi packages, per your
instructions, and installed the newly built ones. I assume that you have
compacted the i386 and x86_64 libraries, because they have the same names and
rpm would complain when I tried to install them one after the other. I am not
sure I've done something wrong, but with:

lam-libs-7.1.2-8.fc5
lam-7.1.2-8.fc5
openmpi-1.1-6.fc5

and

openmpi-libs-1.1-6.fc5

in my system, I can't even do 'mpicc'. 'locate' (after the necessary updatedb)
will not find such a file in any directory.

If you feel I have messed up my installation, my old solution seems to work and
I can stick with that. I just thought I'd help a bit.

No, the i386 and x86_64 libs are in different packages.  With the current Fedora
Core product, rpm knows that the same name is used on the different arches and
doesn't complain about installing two of them.  I suspect you could --force it
on your machine and it would do the right thing, but I'm not sure (I wouldn't
--force the base packages, aka lam or openmpi, but the libs and devel packages
you could).  As for the lack of mpicc, that's because it was moved into the
-devel packages.

Sorry for taking some time to reply. Our machines were doing production runs
(with the 7.1.1-11 version of lam).

I have installed your new lam, openmpi, lam-devel and openmpi-devel packages for
the x86-64 architecture, as well as the corresponding libs for both i386 and
x86-64 and lam seems to be working as expected again.

I hope you will upload these packages to the update repositories.

Thank you for your help!

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