Arpack.jl install error with MKL

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1

I can’t test, because Distributions doesn’t work for me on 0.7, due to this error building Arpack:

(v0.7) pkg> build Arpack
  Building Arpack → `~/.julia/packages/Arpack/OpIo/deps/build.log`
┌ Error: Error building `Arpack`: 
│ [ Info: Downloading https://github.com/JuliaLinearAlgebra/ArpackBuilder/releases/download/v3.5.0-0.2.20/ArpackBuilder.x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz to /home/chris/.julia/packages/Arpack/OpIo/deps/usr/downloads/ArpackBuilder.x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz...
│ ┌ Warning: `wait(t::Task)` is deprecated, use `fetch(t)` instead.
│ │   caller = macro expansion at OutputCollector.jl:63 [inlined]
│ └ @ Core OutputCollector.jl:63
│ ┌ Warning: `wait(t::Task)` is deprecated, use `fetch(t)` instead.
│ │   caller = wait(::OutputCollector) at OutputCollector.jl:160
│ └ @ BinaryProvider OutputCollector.jl:160
│ ┌ Warning: `wait(t::Task)` is deprecated, use `fetch(t)` instead.
│ │   caller = wait(::OutputCollector) at OutputCollector.jl:161
│ └ @ BinaryProvider OutputCollector.jl:161
│ ┌ Warning: `wait(t::Task)` is deprecated, use `fetch(t)` instead.
│ │   caller = wait(::OutputCollector) at OutputCollector.jl:165
│ └ @ BinaryProvider OutputCollector.jl:165
│ ERROR: LoadError: LibraryProduct(nothing, ["libarpack"], :libarpack, "Prefix(/home/chris/.julia/packages/Arpack/OpIo/deps/usr)") is not satisfied, cannot generate deps.jl!
│ Stacktrace:
│  [1] error at ./error.jl:33 [inlined]
│  [2] #write_deps_file#134(::Bool, ::Function, ::String, ::Array{LibraryProduct,1}) at /home/chris/.julia/packages/BinaryProvider/mWAR/src/Products.jl:392
│  [3] write_deps_file(::String, ::Array{LibraryProduct,1}) at /home/chris/.julia/packages/BinaryProvider/mWAR/src/Products.jl:379
│  [4] top-level scope at none:0
│  [5] include at ./boot.jl:317 [inlined]
│  [6] include_relative(::Module, ::String) at ./loading.jl:1034
│  [7] include(::Module, ::String) at ./sysimg.jl:29
│  [8] include(::String) at ./client.jl:393
│  [9] top-level scope at none:0
│ in expression starting at /home/chris/.julia/packages/Arpack/OpIo/deps/build.jl:40
[05:21:09] ######################################################################## 100.0%
└ @ Pkg.Operations Operations.jl:993

The error says

ERROR: LoadError: LibraryProduct(nothing, ["libarpack"], :libarpack, "Prefix(/home/chris/.julia/packages/Arpack/OpIo/deps/usr)") is not satisfied, cannot generate deps.jl!

Checking, I do have libarpack.so in /home/chris/.julia/packages/Arpack/OpIo/deps/usr/lib.

EDIT:

julia> satisfied(products[1], verbose = true)
[ Info: Found a valid dl path libarpack.so while looking for libarpack
[ Info: /home/chris/.julia/packages/Arpack/OpIo/deps/usr/lib/libarpack.so matches our search criteria of libarpack
[ Info: /home/chris/.julia/packages/Arpack/OpIo/deps/usr/lib/libarpack.so cannot be dlopen'ed
[ Info: Found a valid dl path libarpack.so.2 while looking for libarpack
[ Info: /home/chris/.julia/packages/Arpack/OpIo/deps/usr/lib/libarpack.so.2 matches our search criteria of libarpack
[ Info: /home/chris/.julia/packages/Arpack/OpIo/deps/usr/lib/libarpack.so.2 cannot be dlopen'ed
[ Info: Found a valid dl path libarpack.so.2.0.0 while looking for libarpack
[ Info: /home/chris/.julia/packages/Arpack/OpIo/deps/usr/lib/libarpack.so.2.0.0 matches our search criteria of libarpack
[ Info: /home/chris/.julia/packages/Arpack/OpIo/deps/usr/lib/libarpack.so.2.0.0 cannot be dlopen'ed
[ Info: Could not locate libarpack inside /home/chris/.julia/packages/Arpack/OpIo/deps/usr/lib
false

Okay, so satisfied did find the files, but could not open them.

julia> using Libdl

julia> libarpack = Libdl.dlopen("usr/lib/libarpack.so")
ERROR: could not load library "usr/lib/libarpack.so"
libgfortran.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Stacktrace:
 [1] dlopen(::String, ::UInt32) at /home/chris/Documents/prog/julia-reg/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v0.7/Libdl/src/Libdl.jl:99 (repeats 2 times)
 [2] top-level scope at none:0

Apparently I am missing libgfortran.so.4. Starting with gcc-8, it is now libgfortran.so.5. This is the default on popular distributions like Arch and Fedora.
EDIT:
And when Julia is built with MKL:

ERROR: could not load library "lib/libarpack.so"
libopenblas64_.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
2

I think this is Libraries cannot load · Issue #2 · JuliaLinearAlgebra/OpenBLASBuilder · GitHub.

3

Unfortunately, the only solutions at the moment seem to be either “use a prebuilt Julia binary” or “rebuild OpenBLAS with gfortran-7”?
Lots of Linux distributions, such as Arch and Fedora, have already moved on to gfortran-8. So I imagine this problem will be fairly common.
That solution also precludes using MKL.

Would be nice if there were an easy option to support just building it yourself.
When I need Arpack, or something dependent on it, I’ll try that and sticking a symlink in the correct place.

4

We may want to revisit the dependence of PDMats on Arpack, which is how Distributions ends up depending on Arpack. Arpack code is used only for a corner case in PDMats which then ends up precluding the simultaneous use of Distributions and MKL. That’s a big price to pay for such a corner case.

5

We’re considering the same thing for LightGraphs - we use it for eigs in only 3 or 4 places.

6

Any update on this? I can’t run my code with Julia+MKL because of this dependency.

7

Sorry to say that I don’t know of any updates on this.

8

I have the same issue on Fedora 27.

9

Is Arpack really needed? There are some native Julia alternatives by now.

10

Maybe this could be a substitute.