On 06/22/2016 03:31 PM, McGough, Benjamin E wrote:
I have been struggling with creating a clean environment in which to build with
EasyBuild and test easyconfigs.
I wish I could be pardoned if I just left a:
8^)
and walked away...
You are not alone.
On our present cluster, I have done the best to strip
RH/CentOS -devel packages to force use of EB modules
on GPFS. In terms of X11 I'm already convinced I'm going
to try to get us to use the system X11 libs and not fight that
battle with EB. EB's use of X11 _is_ very inconsistent. And
a royal pain in the arse.
I'm not complaining... I'm just saying that there is some tweaking
that can be done.
For our next cluster (RH/CentOS 6 or 7... dunno yet)... I plan to strip
everything
out of EB that I can get from CentOS or EPEL.... I'm sick of dealing
with X11 in EB.
Our new approach will basically be "if a customer requires an app that
needs a newer version, build it with EB... else use the upstream version".
In terms of EB, being a RH person for now, it would be nice to see two
fully decked out easyconfig trees... one with all the -devel packages
installed and one with none of them.
Pretty sure I know who will have to do the work to see that happen.
jack
