On 22-02-17 03:40, Maxime Boissonneault wrote: > Thanks Robert, > While I understand and am all in favor of reusing dependencies, most > packages with dependencies do not provide download hooks for specific > versions of their dependencies. PETSc is this way, I believe OpenFoam > too. When the developers go through this trouble, I prefer to assume > that they know what they are doing and test with specific versions of > the dependencies. If a user finds a bug, it will be that much simpler to > diagnose if it uses the same versions as the developers.
I cannot speak for PETSc but with all recent OpenFOAM easyconfigs we only use EasyBuild provided dependencies. So far this has not given us any trouble. Don't forgot that OpenFOAM also ships with GCC to make it 'easy' for you to build it. Ward
