Hi,
We are working on a build of FSL with SLURM support patches. During the
build we found that the FSL easybuild unpacks the upstream source
tarball in the installdir and doesn't use the builddir. This is by
design in the fsl easy block. (self.build_in_installdir = True)
I suspect this is an artifact of the pre-built binaries distributed for
FSL that would be unpacked in place. The current easyconfig for fsl,
however, downloads the source tarball and appears to do a regular source
build.
There's nothing inherently wrong with building in the install dir, its
just that in our environment the installdir is a NFS share. Unpacking
the FSL tarball to that location is very slow (~5 min). If we specify a
local disk for installdir then the upack is nearly instantaneous.
I'm wondering if this build behavior with the installdir should be
maintained or if a more standard fsl build should be pursued.
Thanks for any insights,
John-Paul
HPC Architect
U. AL at Birmingham
