HI Ben,
On 14/02/16 22:11, Ben Roberts wrote:
Since an EB-mediated installation of the new PGI compilers is on my to do list,
I could have a crack at it. Is there an existing framework module that it would
be ideally suited for? A quick look in the “tools” directory didn’t suggest an
obvious fit.
Thanks for looking into this, let us know if you need any help.
Yeah, there's no ideal fit, but maybe just throw it into the 'filetools'
module?
Depending on how much stuff we're talking, you can also add a new module
'easybuild.tools.licensing' or something like that (filetools is getting
rather big).
regards,
Kenneth
Cheers,
Ben
On 13/02/2016, at 11:46 PM, Kenneth Hoste <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Joachim,
On 11/02/16 12:14, Joachim Hein wrote:
Hi,
We just build a PGI compiler using PGI-15.10-GCC-4.9.3-2.25.eb and had some fun
with the license handling. We use flexlm and set an env-variable
(LM_LICENSE_FILE). The icc easyconfigs can handle this, the PGI config does
not. In the end we created a dummy licences file (EasyBuild seems only to
check for the existence) and modified the module file for what we need. So we
can now continue.
Using an
export [email protected]
type statement did not make things build. It does for the icc. When comparing
the easy-configs (PGI and ICC) I didn’t notice the obvious difference, so that
should be in the easyblock. I am wondering whether some with better expertise
on those could have a look and “upgrade” the PGI.
There's indeed a bit of magic going on for the Intel tools, that could be
useful in other places as well (in the easyblock for PGI, but also in other
places).
The IntelBase generic easyblock, which serves as a base for the different
easyblocks for the Intel compilers/libraries/tools, has the magic in
configure_step [1].
We could look into fleshing this out into a function to framework, such that
the IntelBase and PGI (and other) easyblocks can easily call out to it.
Things are a bit entangled in IntelBase.configure_step right now (some things
in there are really specific to the Intel tools), so this is not exactly
trivial, but definitely doable.
And now the million dollar question: who's up for it? :-)
regards,
Kenneth
[1]
https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-easyblocks/blob/7fe31aa39dd2196298e1f2e328271c9f1d766baa/easybuild/easyblocks/generic/intelbase.py#L204
