I think, Keith means how you can get EasyBuild to use a compiler, MPI, ... build/installed without EasyBuild.
Currently, this is not properly supported. Most people currently using EasyBuild do only install software through EasyBuild, so this was considered so far not important or even not desired. But as more and more people like you are asking for it, and to better support people which want to use EasyBuild for some stuff but not verything, there might be some easy/supported way for doing it in the future. The current hack is to create an EasyBuild module file(s) the right way how EasyBuild expects it by hand -- however this requires some EasyBuild experience. For newcomers, it is easiest to re-install the Intel compilers with EasyBuild (so you know how the module files(s) look like) and adapt them accordingly; but then you have EasyBuild installed Intel compilers anyway ;-) so short answer: install Intel compilers and the desired MPI lib with easybuild, then go on to build the software you actually want Bernd On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 10:46:27PM +0100, Fotis Georgatos wrote: > > Hi Keith, > > On Feb 21, 2014, at 9:32 PM, Keith Hostetler wrote: > > I already have the intel compiler installed, but it is certainly not in > > local. How can I force EB to look elsewhere? > > Most people setup EASYBUILD_PREFIX for a given area and work it all from that > place; > alternatively, you just let the defaults work for you, from inside > $HOME/.local/easybuild > There are variables and mechanisms to override whatever, information is > scattered on the wiki > (eb -H may help as well) > > Tip: > > Try to get success with at least one of the two following directions: > * eb ictce/5.3.0 -r # popular intel toolchain > * eb goolf/1.4.10 -r # popular gnu toolchain > >From then on you can try to build more complex objectives, like > >HPCBIOS/PRACE targets etc; > > enjoy, > Fotis > > ps. pass my warm greetings to Tim ;) > > -- > echo "sysadmin know better bash than english" | sed s/min/mins/ \ > | sed 's/better bash/bash better/' # Yelling in a CERN forum > > > -- Dr.-Ing. Bernd Mohr Juelich Supercomputing Centre Institute for Advanced Simulation E-Mail: [email protected] WWW: http://www.fz-juelich.de/SharedDocs/Personen/IAS/JSC/EN/staff/mohr_b.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH 52425 Juelich Sitz der Gesellschaft: Juelich Eingetragen im Handelsregister des Amtsgerichts Dueren Nr. HR B 3498 Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: MinDir Dr. Karl Eugen Huthmacher Geschaeftsfuehrung: Prof. Dr. Achim Bachem (Vorsitzender), Karsten Beneke (stellv. Vorsitzender), Prof. Dr.-Ing. Harald Bolt, Prof. Dr. Sebastian M. Schmidt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
