Re: [easybuild] Configure options as list

[Kenneth Hoste]

Hi Davide,

On 22/10/16 16:16, Vanzo, Davide wrote:
You could not have written it more clearly. Thanks Kenneth. 

Thanks for the feedback, now included in the official documentation at 
http://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Writing_easyconfig_files.html#list-of-configure-build-install-options.


regards,

Kenneth

DV

On Oct 22 2016, at 2:24 am, Kenneth Hoste <kenneth.ho...@ugent.be> wrote:

    Hi Davide,

    This is indeed not covered by the documentation yet. I wrote a new
    section for this, see
    https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild/pull/261/files).
    (for a preview rendered version, see
    
http://boegel-eb.readthedocs.io/en/iter_opts/Writing_easyconfig_files.html#list-of-configure-build-install-options).

    Can you please review this and let me know whether it's clear
    (preferably in the pull request itself)?


    regards,

    Kenneth

    On 20/10/16 20:13, Vanzo, Davide wrote:
    Apparently I was wrong. EB does four builds, each configured with
    the corresponding configopts line.

    DV


    On Oct 20 2016, at 1:03 pm, Vanzo, Davide
    <davide.va...@vanderbilt.edu>
    <mailto:davide.va...@vanderbilt.edu> wrote:

        Hello,
        It is clear to me that in an easyconfig for a
        ConfigureMake easyblock the configopts variable contains the
        options for the configuration step. However it is not fully
        clear to me what happens when instead of a single string
        configopts is a list of strings, like in this case taken
        from FFTW-3.3.5-gompi-2016.07.eb:

        configopts = [
           common_configopts + " --enable-single --enable-sse2
        --enable-mpi",
           common_configopts + " --enable-long-double --enable-mpi",
           common_configopts + " --enable-quad-precision",
           common_configopts + " --enable-sse2 --enable-mpi",  #
        default as last
        ]

        My best guess at the moment is that EB will try one string at
        a time and, if the configure step fails, it will try the next
        in the list. Am I correct?

        I tried to look in the doc but I could not find an answer.
        Unless I missed it (higly probable) I would suggest adding a
        couple of lines under "Configure/build/install command options" .

        Thanks!

        -- 
        Davide Vanzo, PhD
        Application Developer
        Adjunct Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular
        Engineering
        Advanced Computing Center for Research and Education (ACCRE)
        Vanderbilt University - Hill Center 201
        (615)-875-9137
        www.accre.vanderbilt.edu <http://www.accre.vanderbilt.edu>