Compile sundials with -fPIC to allow shared libraries to link

[andrjohns]

Summary

When exposing Stan functions or model methods (log_prob, etc) in cmdstanr, R compiles a shared object and links to the CmdStan-built libraries.

However this causes an error on Linux system where -fPIC is required for linking static libraries to shared libraries, and the user needs SUNDIALS/CVODES functions:

sunmatrix_band.c:(.text+0x87c): dangerous relocation: unsupported relocation
/usr/bin/ld: /root/.cmdstan/cmdstan-2.34.1/stan/lib/stan_math/lib/sundials_6.1.1/lib/libsundials_kinsol.a(sunmatrix_band.o): relocation R_AARCH64_ADR_PREL_PG_HI21 against symbol `SUNMatClone_Band' which may bind externally can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC

Tests

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Side Effects

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Release notes

Added -fPIC to SUNDIALS compilation flags so that downstream shared libraries can link against them

Checklist

• Copyright holder: Andrew Johnson

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• the basic tests are passing

  • unit tests pass (to run, use: ./runTests.py test/unit)
  • header checks pass, (make test-headers)
  • dependencies checks pass, (make test-math-dependencies)
  • docs build, (make doxygen)
  • code passes the built in C++ standards checks (make cpplint)

• the code is written in idiomatic C++ and changes are documented in the doxygen

• the new changes are tested

[WardBrian]

We also ran into this in BridgeStan

I am not sure if doing it universally is the right thing to do, however, since for usages like CmdStan it is not necessary and can supposedly lead to slower assembly being generated

[stan-buildbot]

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Name	Old Result	New Result	Ratio	Performance change( 1 - new / old )
arma/arma.stan	0.34	0.35	0.96	-4.5% slower
low_dim_corr_gauss/low_dim_corr_gauss.stan	0.01	0.01	0.97	-2.92% slower
gp_regr/gen_gp_data.stan	0.03	0.03	0.99	-1.19% slower
gp_regr/gp_regr.stan	0.1	0.11	0.99	-1.01% slower
sir/sir.stan	77.69	76.88	1.01	1.04% faster
irt_2pl/irt_2pl.stan	4.78	4.37	1.09	8.57% faster
eight_schools/eight_schools.stan	0.06	0.06	1.02	2.07% faster
pkpd/sim_one_comp_mm_elim_abs.stan	0.27	0.26	1.02	1.92% faster
pkpd/one_comp_mm_elim_abs.stan	21.17	20.9	1.01	1.28% faster
garch/garch.stan	0.5	0.49	1.03	2.63% faster
low_dim_gauss_mix/low_dim_gauss_mix.stan	2.94	2.91	1.01	1.14% faster
arK/arK.stan	1.95	1.89	1.03	2.99% faster
gp_pois_regr/gp_pois_regr.stan	3.98	3.08	1.29	22.53% faster
low_dim_gauss_mix_collapse/low_dim_gauss_mix_collapse.stan	9.58	9.33	1.03	2.62% faster
performance.compilation	200.08	201.25	0.99	-0.58% slower
Mean result: 1.0297261462621967

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[andrjohns]

We also ran into this in BridgeStan

I am not sure if doing it universally is the right thing to do, however, since for usages like CmdStan it is not necessary and can supposedly lead to slower assembly being generated

Ah yeah I see. I've updated cmdstanr to check for the flag and add/rebuild if necessary, so we can close this if it's preferable

[WardBrian]

If that works for you I think that's how we should proceed for now