Slurm-drmaa configure script failing because of not finding a library that is clearly present

[samfux84]

Hi,

I am trying to build slurm-drmaa on our HPC cluster. Slurm is installed and I specify the location of the libraries with the --with-slurm-lib configure option:

[sfux@eu-c7-101-01 slurm-drmaa]$ ldd /cluster/apps/slurm/lib/libslurm.so.38
        linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007ffc8bff4000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x00002b0beb37e000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x00002b0beb582000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x00002b0beb79e000)
        libresolv.so.2 => /lib64/libresolv.so.2 (0x00002b0bebaa0000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00002b0bebcba000)
        /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00002b0bead90000)
[sfux@eu-c7-101-01 slurm-drmaa]$ ldd /cluster/apps/slurm/lib/libslurm.so
        linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fff5beef000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x00002b2805d1e000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x00002b2805f22000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x00002b280613e000)
        libresolv.so.2 => /lib64/libresolv.so.2 (0x00002b2806440000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00002b280665a000)
        /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00002b2805730000)

and still the configure script fails:

configure: checking for SLURM
checking for SLURM compile flags... -I/cluster/apps/slurm/include
checking for SLURM library dir... /cluster/apps/slurm/lib
checking for usable SLURM libraries/headers... *** The SLURM test program failed to link or run. See the file config.log
*** for the exact error that occured.
no
configure: error:
SLURM libraries/headers not found;
add --with-slurm-inc and --with-slurm-lib with appropriate locations.
[sfux@eu-c7-101-01 slurm-drmaa]$ 

when checking the config.log file, it states that the library libslurm.so.38 could not be found:

configure:13448: checking for SLURM
configure:13451: checking for SLURM compile flags
configure:13467: result: -I/cluster/apps/slurm/include
configure:13470: checking for SLURM library dir
configure:13485: result: /cluster/apps/slurm/lib
configure:13502: checking for usable SLURM libraries/headers
configure:13524: /usr/bin/gcc -std=gnu11 -o conftest -pedantic -std=c99 -g -O2 -pthread -D_REENTRANT -D_THREAD_SAFE -DNDEBUG  -D_GNU_SOURCE -I/cluster/apps/slurm/include  -L/cluster/apps/slurm/lib conftest.c -pthread  -lslurm  >&5
configure:13524: $? = 0
configure:13524: ./conftest
./conftest: error while loading shared libraries: libslurm.so.38: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

This does not make sense as the directory specified with -L in the link line exists and contains libslurm.so.38:

[sfux@eu-c7-101-01 slurm-drmaa]$ ls -ltr /cluster/apps/slurm/lib
total 68712
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  8144760 Nov 29 06:00 libslurm.so.38.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       18 Nov 29 06:00 libslurm.so.38 -> libslurm.so.38.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       18 Nov 29 06:00 libslurm.so -> libslurm.so.38.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root     1006 Nov 29 06:00 libslurm.la
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 60558126 Nov 29 06:00 libslurm.a
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root    28672 Nov 29 06:00 slurm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   224408 Nov 29 06:00 libpmi.so.0.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       15 Nov 29 06:00 libpmi.so.0 -> libpmi.so.0.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       15 Nov 29 06:00 libpmi.so -> libpmi.so.0.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root     1045 Nov 29 06:00 libpmi.la
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   402072 Nov 29 06:00 libpmi.a
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   206064 Nov 29 06:00 libpmi2.so.0.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       16 Nov 29 06:00 libpmi2.so.0 -> libpmi2.so.0.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       16 Nov 29 06:00 libpmi2.so -> libpmi2.so.0.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root      990 Nov 29 06:00 libpmi2.la
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   474432 Nov 29 06:00 libpmi2.a
[sfux@eu-c7-101-01 slurm-drmaa]$

Any idea why this fails? If you need any additional information, then I am happy to provide it.

Best regards

Sam