Hi Keith, In case it's useful for you, I recently added this pull request
https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-easyconfigs/pull/747 Pablo. 2014-03-18 23:45 GMT+01:00 Fotis Georgatos <[email protected]>: > > Hi Ke*, > > On Mar 18, 2014, at 10:45 PM, Kenneth Hoste wrote: > > But it should still look in the configured source path too though. Are > you saying that's not the case when --try-amend is used? > > to save all the brain-cycles, he mentioned to store the tarballs next to > .eb files, > so that explains it all: as soon as --try is employed, that relationship > is broken, > because the intermediary easyconfigs end up in temporary locations. > > Also, I just recall that the true check for the license server w. > icc/ifort is better > done with "icc -V", to force a check-in/check-out on the flexlm server. > Otherwise, > do not rely too much in Intel's installation mechanisms for symmetric > attitude... > (ie impi checks at install time, icc/ifort do not; and worse: failure > modes may be hidden) > > btw. If you found some sanity check that is worthy to consider at install > time, > open an issue to check its merit. > > Finally, yes Keith, that's what we all do when we need to explore a new > toolchain: > * pick a toolchain combo that works reasonably well for your site (fi. > iomkl variant) > * parse other easyconfigs (eg. via sed) and produce the desired > configurations > * iterate over the new set providing the builds (fingers crossed), with > 'eb' command > (you can also do the robot thingy, if you have preserved the directory > structure and renamed files) > We all agree that something like the above could eventually become a > oneliner, but we don't have that yet :-P > > When the build operations do not deviate across toolchains, things will > just magically work. > When they do deviate though, welcome to the world of EasyBuild, here is > your turn to contribute back :) > > best, > Fotis > > -- > echo "sysadmin know better bash than english" | sed s/min/mins/ \ > | sed 's/better bash/bash better/' # Yelling in a CERN forum > > > > > -- Pablo Escobar López HPC systems engineer Biozentrum, University of Basel Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics SIB Email: [email protected] Phone: +41 61 267 15 82 http://www.biozentrum.unibas.ch
