On Mon, 2013-01-14 at 16:12 +0100, Fotis Georgatos wrote: > Hoi Jens, > > I mean something that we do not fix already with sething the preload > > path and include paths? > > I doubt that it can be fixed in this way, since Debian (& Ubuntu?), > do not seem to provide for libexpat.so.0 > But easybuild is providing libexpat, so if you put it as a dependency it will be in LD_LIBRARY_PATH and found by ldd (and others)
> > Otherwise I would op for just picking one, and making sure we can > > install it on any/every platform... > > I would rather have some kind of facility to tell "use whichever 4.2 CUDA" > is available on a given system or, automatically produce a default 4.2 > modulefile. > (yeah, manually I can always do this). > > The tricky part here is, because I want to insert CUDA as dependency for NAMD > but, The point is that we want a way to install cuda on a system where nvidia is not providing packages for (as far as this is possible, and/or allowed by the cuda license) I believe that as long as cuda doesn't try to do load any kernel modules (which will only work if you're root anyway, so I think this is not the case?) we can install it and all of it's dependencies in a os agnostic way... Other might have other opinions however... Regards Jens Timmerman
