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"


Loading the lapack environment modules doesn't help. 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

Then you can engage in the usual installation process.


make
make check
make install
make installcheck


Create a modulefile for the version and symlink.


cd /usr/local/Modules/modulefiles/jags
ln -s .base 3.4.0


The .base module looks like:


#%Module1.0#####################################################################
##
## $name modulefile
##
set ver [lrange [split [ module-info name ] / ] 1 1 ]
set name [lrange [split [ module-info name ] / ] 0 0 ]
set loading [module-info mode load]
set desc [join [read [ open "/usr/local/Modules/modulefiles/$name/.desc" ] ] ]
proc ModulesHelp { } {
puts stderr "\tThis module sets the envinronment for $name v$ver"
}
module-whatis "$desc (v$ver)"
prepend-path --delim " " CFLAGS -I/usr/local/$name/$ver/include
prepend-path --delim " " CPPFLAGS -I/usr/local/$name/$ver/include
prepend-path --delim " " LDFLAGS -L/usr/local/$name/$ver/lib
prepend-path LD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/local/$name/$ver/lib
prepend-path PATH /usr/local/$name/$ver/bin
prepend-path MANPATH /usr/local/$name/$ver/share/man