The thing I can not wrap my head around is, like it says on your link, "supported toolchains". From that page: "...the first thing you'll need to do is either pick a supported compiler toolchain, or construct your own and make EasyBuild support it". I would think that supported means that I can use them right after installation, but now I am being told that I need to compile the GCC toolchain myself. Isn't that then making my own toolchain, how else can you possibly "pick a supported compiler toolchain"? ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kenneth Hoste [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2014 4:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [easybuild] Toolchains
Hi Keith, On 06/03/14 22:09, Keith Hostetler wrote: > I see. Do you need a tar file to create every toolchain? If not, what else do > you use as the source? Usually, a toolchain involves a compiler and a bunch of libraries (most commonly MPI, BLAS, LAPACK, FFT). See https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild/wiki/Compiler-toolchains for more details. So, most commonly toolchains are basically bundles of a handful of tools, for which EasyBuild knows how to prepare. You'll need source tarballs or installation files for each of the toolchain elements, but the toolchain itself doesn't have any sources of its own. regards, Kenneth > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ward Poelmans > [[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2014 9:48 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [easybuild] Toolchains > > On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 9:27 PM, Keith Hostetler > <[email protected]> wrote: >> You say that it is normal for the dependencies to fail, but if they fail >> then it won't use them and thus won't create the software. As I said, I used >> GCC as my toolchain, but when I do, it fails due to unresolved dependencies >> and so I don't get a software compilation. Do I need to build GCC's >> toolchain too? > Yes, you need to build a GCC toolchain with easybuild. I suppose that > until now, you've used a system gcc? > > Easybuild is build aroud the idea that it is in full control: the > entire (well, almost entire), toolchain is build by easybuild. > > Ward
