Hi Maxime,
maybe this simple example showing how to add a new cli flag to easybuild
can help you as reference
https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/pull/1250/files
regards,
Pablo.
2016-08-11 15:51 GMT+02:00 Maxime Boissonneault <
maxime.boissonnea...@calculquebec.ca>:
> Hi Kenneth,
> I just used the default GCC-4.9.2.eb file.
>
> Indeed, I would expect this to be a config parameter.
>
> If I can get a bit of guidance on how to define a new config parameter
> and then how to use it in the module generation, I don't mind doing a
> pull request for it.
>
> Regards,
>
> Maxime
>
>
> On 16-08-11 09:37, Kenneth Hoste wrote:
> > Hi Maxime,
> >
> > On 11/08/16 15:15, Maxime Boissonneault wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I am looking at modules generated with EasyBuild. I have the
> >> following config parameters:
> >>
> >> modules-tool: Lmod
> >> module-naming-scheme=HierarchicalMNS
> >> module-syntax=Lua
> >>
> >>
> >> For some reason, the GCC module contains a conflict over GCC:
> >> [mboisson@colosse1 easybuild]$ cat modules/all/Core/GCC/4.9.2.lua
> >> ....
> >> conflict("GCC")
> >> prepend_path("MODULEPATH",
> >> "/mnt/sda1/maxime/easybuild/modules/all/Compiler/GCC/4.9.2")
> >> ...
> >>
> >>
> >> Conflicts on module names are unnecessary when using Lmod. I was
> >> looking to disable this, and I find that in "module_generator.py",
> >> there is already the code which seems aware of this:
> >> 475 if self.app.cfg['moduleloadnoconflict']:
> >> 476 self.log.info("Nothing to do to ensure no conflicts
> >> can occur on load when using Lua modules files/Lmod")
> >>
> >> However, it does not seem to work in practice. Is this a bug ?
> >
> > You should be able to bypass the 'conflict' line from being included
> > by adding 'moduleloadnoconflict' in the easyconfig file you're using.
> > Are you saying it doesn't?
> >
> > Why the desire to kick out this conflict statement, it doesn't really
> > hurt to have it there, or does it?
> >
> > Obviously, this is not ideal when you want to avoid the conflict
> > statement in each and every module that is being generated.
> > For that, a configuration option should be added as well so you can
> > specify this once and for all...
> >
> >
> > regards,
> >
> > Kenneth
>
>
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> ---------------------------------
> Maxime Boissonneault
> Analyste de calcul - Calcul Québec, Université Laval
> Président - Comité de coordination du soutien à la recherche de Calcul
> Québec
> Team lead - Research Support National Team, Compute Canada
> Instructeur Software Carpentry
> Ph. D. en physique
>
>
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Pablo Escobar López
HPC systems engineer
sciCORE, University of Basel
SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
http://scicore.unibas.ch
