Installing EXLA in ubuntu 20

karang

Hello, I have been trying to get Exla installed for use with Nx and Axon. I am running Ubuntu 20 and I have read through the instructions and installed exla’s system dependencies (build-essential, erlang-dev, bazel 3.7.2, python3 and numpy, direnv) but when I compile exla I get this error:

ERROR: /home/karang/.cache/bazel/_bazel_karang/0cbb144c3d68d1f180f564ed331d591d/external/llvm-project/llvm/BUILD:46:18: Executing genrule @llvm-project//llvm:config_gen failed (Exit 1): bash failed: error executing command /bin/bash -c ... (remaining 1 argument(s) skipped)
unknown command: python3. Perhaps you have to reshim?
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Note: The failure of target //third_party/llvm:expand_cmake_vars (with exit code 1) may have been caused by the fact that it is running under Python 3 instead of Python 2. Examine the error to determine if that appears to be the problem. Since this target is built in the host configuration, the only way to change its version is to set --host_force_python=PY2, which affects the entire build.

If this error started occurring in Bazel 0.27 and later, it may be because the Python toolchain now enforces that targets analyzed as PY2 and PY3 run under a Python 2 and Python 3 interpreter, respectively. See https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/7899 for more information.
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Target //tensorflow/compiler/xla/exla:libexla.so failed to build
Use --verbose_failures to see the command lines of failed build steps.
INFO: Elapsed time: 9.398s, Critical Path: 8.88s
INFO: 96 processes: 16 internal, 80 local.
FAILED: Build did NOT complete successfully
FAILED: Build did NOT complete successfully
make: *** [Makefile:32: all] Error 1
could not compile dependency :exla, "mix compile" failed. You can recompile this dependency with "mix deps.compile exla", update it with "mix deps.update exla" or clean it with "mix deps.clean exla"
==> ml_test
** (Mix) Could not compile with "make" (exit status: 2).
You need to have gcc and make installed. If you are using
Ubuntu or any other Debian-based system, install the packages
"build-essential". Also install "erlang-dev" package if not
included in your Erlang/OTP version. If you're on Fedora, run
"dnf group install 'Development Tools'".

At first it couldn’t find python so I used the asdf direnv trick but now it says it can’t find python3.

here is my .tools-version

erlang 24.0.1
elixir 1.12.1-otp-24
python 3.9.5
bazel 3.7.2

Has anyone managed to get EXLA working in ubuntu? Thank you!

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josevalim

Creator of Elixir

How did you install python3? The error message says it is not available and you have to reshim it, which may be a requirement depending on the tool you used to install it.

Post #1

outlog

@karang it cant find python3 - maybe this section in the exla readme can be helpful nx/exla at main · elixir-nx/nx · GitHub

Python and asdf

Bazel cannot find python installed via the asdf version manager by default. asdf uses a function to lookup the specified version of a given binary, this approach prevents Bazel from being able to correctly build EXLA. The error is unknown command: python. Perhaps you have to reshim?. There are two known workarounds:

Use a separate installer or explicitly change your $PATH to point to a Python installation (note the build process looks for python, not python3). For example, on Homebrew on macOS, you would do:
export PATH=/usr/local/opt/python@3.9/libexec/bin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH
mix deps.compile
Use the asdf direnv plugin to install direnv 2.20.0. direnv along with the asdf-direnv plugin will explicitly set the paths for any binary specified in your project’s .tool-version files.

After doing any of the steps above, it may be necessary to clear the build cache by removing ~/.cache/exla.

do keep us posted if it works, and/or readme needs updating..

Post #2

karang

Thanks guys! I used asdf to install python and method 2 as per above to to deal with it. I installed direnv and set the tools versions in my mix project. I just cleared the cache and tried again and it gave me the same error. So I tried to remove the python plugin from asdf but this does not remove the shims and then bazel complains that the shims don’t exist. So i reinstalled python with asdf and double check my direnv setup to make sure the PATH is set correctly and bazel still can’t find python3. I’ll let you know if I get it to work but so far method 2 has not worked for me and I am not sure which directory I can add to my path if I wanted to use method 1.

Post #3

MrDoops

I’m running into the same errors using Ubuntu 20.04, RocM + Tensorflow, asdf managed Python and Bazel as described above. I’ve also tried aliasing ‘python’ to ‘python3’ but same scenario.

Post #4

shotleybuilder

I’m on Ubuntu 20.04 too. I think I’ve progressed further than @MrDoops but the behaviour did surprise me a little. mix deps.compile on a new project with Nx, EXLA and Axon as dependencies generated this output. I’m not sure if it finished, I let it run for about 4 hours!

Just not sure what I should have expected to happen.

Oh, I can’t attest to this being helpful but I did export PYTHON_BIN_PATH=/usr/bin/python3.8

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Post #5

seanmor5

Author of Genetic Algorithms in Elixir

That’s the correct output, EXLA takes a really long to compile (it has to compile a lot of TensorFlow). When it finishes you’ll see an output with something like Linking libexla.so.

Post #6

shotleybuilder

Hey, that’s good to know, finishing off this morning

Post #7

karang

This really helped me! It is now compiling! All the fans are running!

Post #8

karang

It seems now bazel can find python after running the above command but a new problem has arisen. When exla starts compiling I start up htop to watch my memory and cpu usage and I see all cores running at close to 100% and then at some point (always different) RAM will get filled up and the compilation crashes. I have 16G ram and 16 cores on my machine this should be enough right? How can I avoid running out of memory during exla compilation? Thank you!!

Post #9