Thanks, Kenneth. I forgot about the issue tracker, I'll put it there of course. I will also check whether this was solved with 2.8.0.
All the best, Elena On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 4:40 PM, Kenneth Hoste <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 19/05/16 15:54, Elena Malkin wrote: > > Hi easybuilders, > > I am doing many installations with the --module-only flag and I ran into > several similar problems. > > > 1) I made a full icc installation and afterwards I created a second module > file in a different path. The 2 created module files were identical except > for one line. The first module had the line > > prepend_path("INTEL_LICENSE_FILE", > "/home/installer/licenses/intel/license.lic") > > and the second one > > prepend_path("UNKNOWN", "UNKNOWN") > > As a result, when you load icc with the second module, the license path is > not set and it, of course, refuses to work. I believe that the issue comes > from generic/intelbase.py. In __init__ license_file is set as > self.license_file = 'UNKNOWN' > and later in the configure_step it is changed. But with "module-only" the > configure step is skipped, so this variable is never set correctly. > > > See https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-easyblocks/issues/776, please > report there that you're still seeing this with EasyBuild 2.8.0. > > We'll look into fixing it (and adding a test so it doesn't happen again). > > > > > 2) When trying to create a second module file for EasyBuild 2.6.0, I got > the error message > > == 2016-05-18 16:15:38,607 easyblock.py:2067 INFO Running method > sanity_check_step part of step sanitycheck > == 2016-05-18 16:15:38,695 build_log.py:152 ERROR Failed to determine > sanity check dir paths: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: > '/global/hds/software/compute_nodes/eb1/EasyBuild/2.6.0/UNKNOWN' (at > easybuild/easyblocks/e/easybuildmeta.py:179 in sanity_check_step) > > The full installation completes without a problem. > > > What was the exact command line here? What do you man by 'second module > file'? > > > > 3) Packages that have "start_dir = " in their easyconfigs crash during a > "module-only" installation. They are looking for a certain directory in the > build directory, and fail because the build dir is empty. If there was > something left from a previous installation (with "cleanup-builddir" > disabled), it is removed. An example of this is Hypre-2.10.1-intel-2015b.eb. > > > Can you please open an issue for this at > https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-easyblocks/issues ? > > > regards, > > Kenneth >
