On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Bode, Brett <br...@illinois.edu> wrote: > How do you handle the binutils dependency for other software (like mpich)? I > have been using the GCC-4.9.2-binutils-2.25 version on a haswell node. > Binutils is required to build GCC, but it is also required to build other > software with GCC. However, those packages do not list binutils (either > version) as a dependency. My hack to get around the problem was change the > plain binutils module in a regular “dependency” rather than a > builddependency. Probably not the best solution but to be honest I think the > GCC-4.9.x-binutils-2.25 sort of implies that it is included.
The easiest thing to do is to use the foss toolchain (compiler+blas/lapack+mpi) or the GNU toolchain (just gcc+binutils). You can binutils for free with these. Ward
