On 30/04/15 10:09, Backeljauw Franky wrote:
Hi Jens,
Op 30-apr.-2015, om 09:53 heeft Jens Timmerman
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> het
volgende geschreven:
On 29/04/15 17:15, Backeljauw Franky wrote:
I have a small question: after unpacking a tar-file of a PythonPackage, I need
to add a file to its directory before starting the build process.
How can I do that with EasyBuild?
I tried with a patch as in “diff -ru -NB” but that tells me it cannot determine
the patch level…
Any ideas?
I've seen Kenneth do it like this
patches = [
'somepatch,patch',
['filetocopy', 'directory to copy it to, e.g, ./somedir']
]
This last construction worked:
patches = [‘build.conf’,’./‘]
This works, but it doesn't do what you think it does. :-)
What Jens was suggesting is this:
patches = [('build.conf', '.')]
That is: tell EasyBuild to *copy* the file build.conf to whatever the
current directory is at that time.
EasyBuild knows it should copy this file rather than try to treat it as
a patch file, because the filename doesn't end with .patch .
Since the default target is '.', this should be the same as:
patches = ['build.conf']
What you are doing is copying both 'build.conf' and '.' to the current
directory.
Apparently the Python equivalent of "cp . ." 'works' fine, but you just
got lucky there. ;-)
TL;DR: We need to get the various options for 'patches' documented,
there are other things too you can do (e.g., supply the patch level to
use for patch files, or the location where patch files should be applied
in).
K.
