[Ipopt] ipopt make test fails: missing MA27

[Tony Kelman]

Joris,

The issue is because you're using an older version of Ipopt. The latest 
all-in-one "HSL for Ipopt" coinhsl downloads don't work immediately with any 
released version of Ipopt without a few extra steps (detailed in this file: 
https://projects.coin-or.org/svn/BuildTools/ThirdParty/HSL/releases/1.3.3/INSTALL.HSL). 
But rather than going through those steps, it's simplest to work with Ipopt 
trunk (https://projects.coin-or.org/svn/Ipopt/trunk) for now, which should 
just work if you put the coinhsl folder in that location.

-Tony


-----Original Message----- 
From: Joris Kinable <deus87 at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 08:09:21 +0100
To: ipopt at list.coin-or.org
Subject: [Ipopt] ipopt make test fails: missing MA27

Dear,

I'm having some issues with the installation of Ipopt. I have followed
the installation guide
(http://www.coin-or.org/Ipopt/documentation/node22.html) up to the
point where I have to run 'make test'. This fails with the following
error:

=================================
Running unitTests...

Testing AMPL Solver Executable...
    no AMPL solver executable found, skipping test...
Testing C++ Example...

---- 8< ---- Start of test program output ---- 8< ----
Exception of type: OPTION_INVALID in file
"../../../../Ipopt/src/Algorithm/IpAlgBuilder.cpp" at line 297:
Exception message: Selected linear solver MA27 not available.
Tried to obtain MA27 from shared library "libhsl.so", but the
following error occured:
libhsl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
==================================

First I have downloaded ipopt from svn:
svn co https://projects.coin-or.org/svn/Ipopt/stable/3.9 CoinIpop
Next I have have downloaded the 3th party packages, including the following
package containing MA27: coinhsl v2012.12.21. The contents of the latter
package have been placed (according
to the instructions) in: /opt/CoinIpopt/ThirdParty/HSL/coinhsl
This folder contains the following files:

==================================
aclocal.m4                 hsl_ma77d.o                 hsl_zb01_integer.mod
ChangeLog                  hsl_ma77_double_iface.mod   hsl_zd11_double.mod
CoinHslConfig.h            hsl_ma77_double.mod         INSTALL
CoinHslConfig.h.in         hsl_ma86                    install-sh
coinhsl.pc                 hsl_ma86d_ciface.lo         libcoinhsl.la
coinhsl.pc.in              hsl_ma86d_ciface.mod        libtool
common                     hsl_ma86d_ciface.o          LICENCE
config.guess               hsl_ma86d.lo                ltmain.sh
config.h                   hsl_ma86d.o                 m4
config.h.in                hsl_ma86_double.mod         ma27
config.log                 hsl_ma97                    ma27d.lo
config.status              hsl_ma97d_ciface.lo         ma27d.o
config.sub                 hsl_ma97d_ciface.o          ma28
configure                  hsl_ma97d.lo                ma28d.lo
configure.ac               hsl_ma97d.o                 ma28d.o
deps90.lo                  hsl_ma97_double_ciface.mod  ma57
deps90.o                   hsl_ma97_double.mod         ma57d.lo
deps.lo                    hsl_mc34_double.mod         ma57d.o
deps.o                     hsl_mc64_double.mod         Makefile
dump.lo                    hsl_mc68                    Makefile.am
dump.o                     hsl_mc68_double.mod         Makefile.in
hsl_kb22_long_integer.mod  hsl_mc68_integer.mod        mc19
hsl_ma54_double.mod        hsl_mc68_single.mod         mc19d.lo
hsl_ma64_double.mod        hsl_mc69_double.mod         mc19d.o
hsl_ma77                   hsl_mc78_integer.mod        missing
hsl_ma77d_ciface.lo        hsl_mc80_double.mod         README
hsl_ma77d_ciface.o         hsl_of01_double.mod         stamp-h1
hsl_ma77d.lo               hsl_of01_integer.mod        stamp-h2
==========================================================

Next I created the folder /opt/CoinIpopt/build. Inside the folder
build, I ran "../configure", "./make", "./make test". The result is
the above error. Attached to this e-mail you can find the config.log
file which is located in the /opt/CoinIpopt/build folder.

I thought that the problem was that the files inside
/opt/CoinIpopt/ThirdParty/HSL/coinhsl were not compiled for some
reason. So I went to this folder and also ran "../configure",
"./make", "./make install". The result is that I now have the
following files inside /usr/local/lib:
libcoinhsl.a   libcoinhsl.so    libcoinhsl.so.0.0.0
libcoinhsl.la  libcoinhsl.so.0

I made sure that the directory /usr/local/lib was set in the variable
LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

Any suggestions what I did wrong? Feel free to ask if you need more
information.

br,

Joris