Hi folks, There are many easybuilds created from the HPCBIOS effort that depend on goolf-1.4.10 which in turn depends on GCC 4.7.2. This GCC has a bug in it's texinfo docs that causes a parsing error and GCC build failure when the system texinfo is at version 5x, as is the case on CentOS7. BTW, this bug was fixed in GCC 4.7.3.
One solution I've found works is to simply provide and updated eb for goolf-1.7.20 which uses GCC 4.8.4. Given that essentially all goolf-1.4.10 easybuilds will fail on CentOS7 due to the GCC 4.7.2 error, are there any general recommendations for how to proceed building the large and very useful collection of existing eb's from the HPCBIOS effort on this newer system platform? Is there any work going on to update these eb's wholesale to goolf-1.7.20? Looking for recommendations and clarification on the status of these efforts. Thanks, ~jpr
