Thanks, this looks actually better than the CXXFLAGS. But is it doing exactly? Just setting the option in the flags?
-- ETH Zurich Michele Dolfi Institute for Theoretical Physics HIT G 32.4 Wolfgang-Pauli-Str. 27 8093 Zurich Switzerland [email protected] www.itp.phys.ethz.ch +41 44 633 78 56 phone +41 44 633 11 15 fax > On Oct 7, 2016, at 9:46 AM, Kenneth Hoste <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Michele, > > A 'cleaner' way is through 'toolchainopts', i.e. by adding this line to your > easyconfig file: > > toolchainopts = {'cstd': 'c++11'} > > See also > https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-easyconfigs/blob/68176cd383d3bc3569894bced5a3fda001d0e4fb/easybuild/easyconfigs/m/MRtrix/MRtrix-0.3.14-intel-2016a-Python-2.7.11.eb#L10 > > <https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-easyconfigs/blob/68176cd383d3bc3569894bced5a3fda001d0e4fb/easybuild/easyconfigs/m/MRtrix/MRtrix-0.3.14-intel-2016a-Python-2.7.11.eb#L10> > > > The only difference here is that you don't need to worry which flag to use > exactly (-std, or maybe another flag when a different compiler is used). > > > regards, > > Kenneth > > PS: an overview of supported toolchain options per toolchain is available at > http://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/version-specific/toolchain_opts.html > > <http://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/version-specific/toolchain_opts.html>; > to evaluate the effect of setting a particular toolchain option you can > use -x, cfr. http://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Extended_dry_run.html > <http://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Extended_dry_run.html> > > On 05/10/16 19:23, Michele Dolfi wrote: >> Thanks. >> configopts actually seems to work. >> >> I think before I actually overlooked the verbose cmake command, and didn’t >> see that the CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS was actually repeated. >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> On Oct 5, 2016, at 7:11 PM, Jack Perdue <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> On 10/05/2016 11:40 AM, Michele Dolfi wrote: >>>> Dear EasyBuild experts, >>>> >>>> I would like to enable C++11 inside some EB config file. >>>> Usually, in a CMake project, I was doing -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS=“-std=c++11”. >>>> However EB overrides it if I put it in `configopts`. >>>> >>>> >>>> If I read the log correctly, EB is setting the optimization options in the >>>> CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS. Personally I think this is a wrong behavior, because >>>> optimization flags in CMake are delivered by the BuildMode (Debug, >>>> Release, …), and those CXXFLAGS should be overridden in >>>> CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_RELEASE. >>>> >>> >>> preconfigopts most definitely won't work given >>> the CMakeMake.py easyblock. >>> >>> I usually add to configopts something like: >>> >>> -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS=“$CXXFLAGS -std=c++11" >>> >>> which usually works since it appears later on the command >>> line and seems to override EB's setting, >>> >>> YMMV (not sure why it isn't working for you) >>> >>> jack >>> >> >

