On Wed, 2012-07-25 at 14:17 +0200, Fotis Georgatos wrote: > Hi Jens, > > On 25/07/2012 14:10, Jens Timmerman wrote: > > But this would create to much clutter of 'fake/dummy' modules, > > so maybe replacing osdependencies with a 'prerequisites_commands', which > > contains a list of commands that shouldn't fail for this module to > > actually build would be a better option? > > To prevent clutter, you could always have an "osdependencies" modulefile > which modifies MODULEPATH and brings in all that cruft. That still allows > you to a) override default tcsh with a custom build one when in need, > b) reduce dependencies on OS repositories and distro specific mechanisms > c) actually report problems when there are exact version dependencies > (otherwise a default yum/repo update can break a working HPC application). > > What do you think? > You are right on all 3 points.
Jens
