Hi Ward,
On 07/15/2013 11:20 AM, Ward Poelmans wrote: > OK, the problem did turn out was my sloppy git tree. Always clean up > before you think you hit a bug :) Glad you could get it to work :-) > But I've got another question: when you specify a patch in a eb file > and run the file, it doesn't look for the patch file in the directory > of the eb file. It looks in the python tree. Is this intended > behaviour? I think it would make sense to also look in the directory > of the eb file. Should a write a patch for that? Or is this working as > it is intended? > > Ward You are right, this is how it currently works and is not intended behavior but a known limitation [0] You are very welcome to fix this and send a pull request (or patch if you prefer, but pull requests are easier for us) I want to add that easybuild looks for the patch file in the source directory and the robot path (iirc, if not, this also needs to be fixed) So if you put your patch next to the downloaded tarball easybuild will pick up on it. Regards Jens Timmerman [0] https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/issues/573
