Dear Kenneth,
On 08/08/2017 09:15 PM, Kenneth Hoste wrote:
Dear Christian,
I would say this is a bug in the modules tool, not in EasyBuild
itself, wouldn't you agree?
Indeed, I do. I was just hoping for a possible work around. (On the
respective cluster modules is established for quite a while.) Yet, the
move to Lmod is pending - as I have to admit.
Thank you,
Christian
All EasyBuild does is generate a module that includes "prepend-path
MANPATH <location>".
If the modules tool does the prepend while not fully honoring the
empty value in $MANPATH, there's little EasyBuild can do about this
imho...
You may want to look into Lmod [1], a modern modules tool that does
the right thing in this situation...
regards,
Kenneth
[1] https://www.tacc.utexas.edu/research-development/tacc-projects/lmod
On 08/08/2017 20:56, Christian Meesters wrote:
Dear all,
upon loading a module (C-Version), a preset variable (e.g. MANPATH)
is prepended (depending on the module, of course). This overwrites
the empty path, designated by a colon. E.g.:
$ echo $MANPATH
:/var/cfengine/share/man
$ man ls # works fine
$ module load tools/parallel/20170622
$ echo $MANPATH
/cluster/easybuild/software/tools/parallel/20170622/share/man:/var/cfengine/share/man
$ man ls # does not work, because the empty path is missing
$ module purge
$ echo $MANPATH
/var/cfengine/share/man
$ man ls # still does not work, leading colon is missing
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Now, my question is: Is there a way to ask Easybuild to set up module
files, such that leading colons are preserved? If not, would that be
worth a feature request?
Best regards,
Christian Meesters
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