I have solved this problem myself. The mx drivers are built using the gcc compilers both in 64 and 32 bit.
I was trying to build 64-bit openmpi on the sun and I am afraid I overlooked that I had to give the path to the 64-bit gcc libs EXPLICITLY in the build of the openmpi. These libraries were required for the mx libraries to be linked in correctly otherwise the environment would only look for the 32-bit which led to the mx environment not being fully configured. Lydia ------------------------------------------ Dr E L Heck University of Durham Institute for Computational Cosmology Ogden Centre Department of Physics South Road DURHAM, DH1 3LE United Kingdom e-mail: lydia.h...@durham.ac.uk Tel.: + 44 191 - 334 3628 Fax.: + 44 191 - 334 3645 ___________________________________________