Hi Riccardo, all, On Oct 28, 2015, at 9:56 PM, Riccardo Murri <[email protected]> wrote: > Maybe the `EB_GCC` easyblock could be patched to add `MAKEINFO=missing` > in the initial steps, and only build documentation in the last step, > when it's actually useful? (and build dependencies are honored)
the EB_GCC easyblock should not be thought of as cast in stone and, in fact, at some point will require a bit of overhaul for proper generalisation. I recall that it is written in a way which is not very helpful for, say, an older compiler such as 4.1.2 to run across different distributions (cannot remember the details, but my strongest realisation of that issue was actually triggered by a request coming from Riccardo early in the summer of 2014 - maybe Eigensoft against Ubuntu) The summary of all this is that a bit of Continuous Integration against multiple distros and compilers would not hurt but, no-one has found the time to do it, as desired. F. -- echo "sysadmin know better bash than english" | sed s/min/mins/ \ | sed 's/better bash/bash better/' # signal detected in a CERN forum
