R won't build with MKL suggested options using ICX/ICPX

[atb1r21]

Hi,

Intel One API are moving away from ICC/ICPC towards ICX/ICPX (they mainly have moved away from it already).

When trying to build R today I have been doing the following with the Intel Classic Compiler (ICC):

export CC=icc export FC=ifort export F77=ifort export CXX=icpc export CXXFLAGS="-std=c++17" export CFLAGS=-O3

./configure --prefix=/local/software/R/4.3.1/install/ --with-blas=-qmkl=parallel --with-lapack=-qmkl=parallel --enable-R-shlib --with-x=no --with-pcre1 --with-cairo

make -j16 make install

Which works without issues, aside from obvious complaints that I shouldn't be using ICC as it is deprecated.

When I do the same but

export CC=icx export FC=ifort export F77=ifort export CXX=icpx export CXXFLAGS="-std=c++17" export CFLAGS=-O3

./configure --prefix=/local/software/R/4.3.1/install/ --with-blas=-qmkl=parallel --with-lapack=-qmkl=parallel --enable-R-shlib --with-x=no --with-pcre1 --with-cairo

make -j16

It fails to build and stops at:

installing 'sysdata.rda' Error in rep(alist(a = ), ndim) : invalid 'length.out' argument Calls: loadNamespace -> parseNamespaceFile -> unique -> unique.matrix Execution halted make[4]: [sysdata] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/mainfs/local/software/R/4.3.1/source/R-4.3.1/src/library/tools' make[3]: [all] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory /mainfs/local/software/R/4.3.1/source/R-4.3.1/src/library/tools' make[2]: *** [R] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory/mainfs/local/software/R/4.3.1/source/R-4.3.1/src/library' make[1]: [R] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/mainfs/local/software/R/4.3.1/source/R-4.3.1/src' make: [R] Error 1

I have experienced this error with R 4.3.1 and R 4.3.2 today, using the 2023.2 Intel one API compilers and MKL.

Is there a known fix for the above, or is this a new bug?

[gaborcsardi]

This issue does not seem to have much to do with R-hub, so I am going to close it.