Compiling ipopt for rockylinux9 / RHEL9

[mrmundt]

Hello, all!

I am attempting to compile ipopt 3.14.17 on either rockylinux9 or RHEL9. While the compilation seems like it is successful (no errors, minor warnings, nothing alarming), when I attempt to actually run ipopt on an nl file, I inevitably get segfaults.

The process I am following is:

1. Ensure that LAPACK/Blas are installed
2. Download and install ASL from coin-or-tools/ThirdParty-ASL
3. Download and install Mumps from coin-or-tools/ThirdParty-Mumps (without metis)
4. Download Ipopt from this repo and configure to build with mumps and ASL (without HSL)
   • Failures show up immediately in make test (all tests fail, most with segfaults)
   • If I run make install and then ipopt --version, it will return the version number
   • As soon as I run ipopt test.nl, it prints up to identifying the number of nonzeros in Lagrangian Hessian, then segfaults.

Small test file (test.nl):

g3 1 1 0	# problem unknown
 2 0 1 0 0 	# vars, constraints, objectives, ranges, eqns
 0 1 0 0 0 0	# nonlinear constrs, objs; ccons: lin, nonlin, nd, nzlb
 0 0	# network constraints: nonlinear, linear
 0 2 0 	# nonlinear vars in constraints, objectives, both
 0 0 0 1	# linear network variables; functions; arith, flags
 0 0 0 0 0 	# discrete variables: binary, integer, nonlinear (b,c,o)
 0 2 	# nonzeros in Jacobian, obj. gradient
 0 0	# max name lengths: constraints, variables
 0 0 0 0 0	# common exprs: b,c,o,c1,o1
O0 0
o0
o5
o0
o2
n-1
v0
n1.0
n2
o2
n100.0
o5
o0
v1
o16
o5
v0
n2
n2
x2
0 1.5
1 1.5
r
b
3
3
k1
0
G0 2
0 0
1 0

Return of command ipopt test.nl:

$ ./ipopt ~/IDAES/test.nl 


******************************************************************************
This program contains Ipopt, a library for large-scale nonlinear optimization.
 Ipopt is released as open source code under the Eclipse Public License (EPL).
         For more information visit https://github.com/coin-or/Ipopt
******************************************************************************

This is Ipopt version 3.14.17, running with linear solver MUMPS 5.7.3.

Number of nonzeros in equality constraint Jacobian...:        0
Number of nonzeros in inequality constraint Jacobian.:        0
Number of nonzeros in Lagrangian Hessian.............:        3

Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Has anyone had success manually compiling and using IPOPT on a RHEL9 or rockylinux9? Thank you!

[svigerske]

Maybe it is an incompatible version (e.g., 64bit integers) of Lapack/Blas? What did it use there?

[mrmundt]

That is what I tried originally (which allows Mumps to build but segfaults in IPOPT). When I install lapack-devel, that's how I get the lapack I listed in #803 (reply in thread):

lapack.x86_64                                                                         3.9.0-10.el9                                                                      @appstream
lapack-devel.x86_64                                                                   3.9.0-10.el9                                                                      @crb      
lapack64.x86_64                                                                       3.9.0-10.el9                                                                      @crb      
lapack64_.x86_64                                                                      3.9.0-10.el9                                                                      @crb      

[svigerske]

Do you have a full Dockerfile to reproduce this? If so, can you share it?

[mrmundt]

It won't let me attach it here (per GitHub, "unsupported file type"), but here are the contents:

FROM rockylinux:9

# Install dependencies
RUN dnf -y update; dnf clean all
RUN dnf config-manager --set-enabled crb
RUN dnf -y install git make gcc gcc-c++ gcc-gfortran lapack-devel
RUN dnf -y install wget unzip patch which file
RUN dnf -y install python3 python-devel findutils diffutils boost boost-devel

# Create required directories
RUN mkdir /IDAES; \
    mkdir /IDAES/ipopt-build; \
    mkdir /IDAES/ThirdParty

# Clone IPOPT
RUN cd /IDAES; \
    git clone https://github.com/coin-or/Ipopt.git;

# Clone ASL and Mumps
RUN cd /IDAES/ThirdParty; \
    git clone https://github.com/coin-or-tools/ThirdParty-ASL.git ASL; \
    git clone https://github.com/coin-or-tools/ThirdParty-Mumps.git Mumps;

# Install ASL
RUN cd /IDAES/ThirdParty/ASL; \
    ./get.ASL; \
    ./configure --prefix=/IDAES/ipopt-build; \
    make; \
    make install;

# Install Mumps
RUN cd /IDAES/ThirdParty/Mumps; \
    ./get.Mumps; \
    ./configure --prefix=/IDAES/ipopt-build --without-metis; \
    make; \
    make install;

This one incorporates pre-building ASL and Mumps, but you can remove those if you want to build them within a container instead. I then build Ipopt on the container I create with:

cd /IDAES/Ipopt
./configure --prefix=/IDAES/ipopt-build --without-hsl
make
make test

Failures can be seen on make test

[svigerske]

The blas and lapack library symlinks in RockyLinux 9 are broken: https://bugs.rockylinux.org/view.php?id=7855
This should work around it:

RUN cd /usr/lib64 && ln -sf libblas.so.3.9.0 libblas.so.3 && \
   ln -sf liblapack.so.3.9.0 liblapack.so.3

I also needed to add

RUN dnf -y install 'dnf-command(config-manager)'

to run your Dockerfile.

[mrmundt]

AH! Thank you, Stefan, it doesn't segfault!! And it gives the answer I would expect. You are a lifesaver, thank you so much.