I like this idea as well, I'll implement it a.s.a.p. Thanks for all the thoughts and considerations everyone!
Cheers, Caspar ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kenneth Hoste" <[email protected]> To: "easybuild" <[email protected]>, "John Donners" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, 8 January, 2018 22:13:14 Subject: Re: [easybuild] Use of EBROOT of a dependency as modextravar On 08/01/2018 21:58, John Donners wrote: > maybe it's easier to put a symlink to the bar executable in the bin directory > of Foo and then > point BAR_BIN simply there? I'm not sure where in the easyconfig to create > the symlink (a > postinstallopts doesn't exist..). That's actually a very good suggestion! :) You're close: there's a postinstallcmds easyconfig parameter that is suited for this ("eb -a | grep postinstall"). postinstallcmds = ["ln -s $EBROOTBAR/bin/bar %(installdir)s/bin/bar"] modextrapaths = {'BAR_BIN': '%(installdir)s/bin'} regards, Kenneth
