JAGS (Just Another Gibbs Sampler) Installation.

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For those fascinated by the world of analysis of Bayesian hierarchical models using Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) simulation (and let's face it, who isn't?), there is a delightful program called JAGS. Unfortunately it is a little stubborn to install.

Download the latest version from our friends at Sourceforge and extract in a sensible place (e.g., /usr/local/src/JAGS.

Now witness some example failures to install, which a reasonable person would assume would be sufficient.


../config
configure: error: "You need to install the LAPACK library"
module load lapack
configure: error: "You need to install the LAPACK library"
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/jags/3.3.0/ --with-lapack=/usr/local/lapack/3.4.1/
configure: error: "You need to install the LAPACK library"


OK, what actually worked was the following:

LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/blas/1.0.248/lib -L/usr/local/atlas/3.8.4-gcc/lib" F77=gfortran ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/jags/3.3.0/ --with-lapack=/usr/local/lapack/3.4.2/lib/liblapack.so