Markus, you are absolutely right. The only way to do what I want is the following:
$ eb GCC-5.4.0-2.26.eb -D --hide-deps=M4,Bison,flex,zlib,binutils,GCCcore --hide-toolchains=GCCcore or to specify the dependencies that need to be hidden in the EASYBUILD_HIDE_DEPS environment variable. I think that at the moment it is good enough for me. DV On Oct 18 2016, at 12:41 pm, Markus Geimer <m.gei...@fz-juelich.de> wrote: Alan, Davide, > hidden = True is now supported within EB (see > https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/pull/1837), just add > that to your GCCcore eb file Since GCCcore is a toolchain, '--hide-deps' or 'hidden = True' alone doesn't help. 'hidden = True' only applies to the installation itself, but not necessarily when the package is used as a dependency (see below). And '--hide-deps' only applies if GCCcore is used as a dependency, but not when used as a toolchain. Therefore, EB 2.9.0 also supports a '--hide-toolchains' option, which should help in this case. (Note that GCCcore needs to be marked as hidden in both ways.) > If so, is there any chance we will see such feature (maybe not by > default but as an eb option flag) in the future? > > If not, what would you suggest? Obviously I could manually edit all > easyconfig files by adding the hiddendependencies but that may be > quite annoying in the long term. If you list your easyconfig archive and/or "golden repo" before the easyconfig dir of your EB install in robot path, EasyBuild will look at those first and correctly handles packages including 'hidden=True' even w/o listing them in hiddendependencies. However, for other robot-path setups, an 'automatically consider hidden modules' feature is still missing in EasyBuild. Let me use Kenneth's favorite in such cases: "It should not be too hard to implement this..." ;-) Markus -- Dr. Markus Geimer Juelich Supercomputing Centre Institute for Advanced Simulation Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH 52425 Juelich, Germany Phone: +49-2461-61-1773 Fax: +49-2461-61-6656 E-Mail: m.gei...@fz-juelich.de Web: http://www.fz-juelich.de/jsc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH 52425 Juelich Sitz der Gesellschaft: Juelich Eingetragen im Handelsregister des Amtsgerichts Dueren Nr. HR B 3498 Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: MinDir Dr. Karl Eugen Huthmacher Geschaeftsfuehrung: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Marquardt (Vorsitzender), Karsten Beneke (stellv. Vorsitzender), Prof. Dr.-Ing. Harald Bolt, Prof. Dr. Sebastian M. Schmidt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
