Thanks for the reference. Unfortunately, I have no clue what they are talking about in that thread. :-(
Is the LibUUID module included to work around the bug they mention there? Jakob > On 5 Oct 2018, at 10:17, Alan O'Cais <a.oc...@fz-juelich.de> wrote: > > This was discussed on the mailing list recently (see > https://lists.ugent.be/wws/arc/easybuild/2018-09/msg00015.html) but someone > needs to open a PR... > > On Fri, 5 Oct 2018 at 10:00, Jakob Schiøtz <schi...@fysik.dtu.dk> wrote: > Dear all, > > We use matplotlib with Tkinter support. Until foss/2018a that worked just > fine, but with foss/2018b it causes a module named LibUUID to be loaded. That > library breaks a lot of programs, for example it causes Emacs to crash. It > also causes errors like this from the MPI stack: > > [x049.nifl.fysik.dtu.dk:12411] mca_base_component_repository_open: unable to > open mca_mtl_psm: > /home/modules/software/LibUUID/1.0.3-GCCcore-7.3.0/lib/libuuid.so.1: version > `UUID_1.0' not found (required by /lib64/libpsm_infinipath.so.1) (ignored) > > I don’t know why this library is being loaded by X11/20180604-GCCcore-7.3.0 > but not by X11/20180131-GCCcore-6.4.0 > > > Somehow, I guess the underlying real problem is that EasyBuild relies on > LD_LIBRARY_PATH to find shared libraries, instead of compiling with > -Wl,-rpath=XXX. It will invariably cause breakage like this, where one > module points to a folder containing a library with the same name as another > program expects to find elsewhere. But that may be very difficult to fix, > getting rid of LibUUID might be a good start. :-) > > Best regards > > Jakob > > > > > -- > Jakob Schiøtz, professor, Ph.D. > Department of Physics > Technical University of Denmark > DK-2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark > http://www.fysik.dtu.dk/~schiotz/ > > > > > > -- > Dr. Alan O'Cais > E-CAM Software Manager > Juelich Supercomputing Centre > Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH > 52425 Juelich, Germany > > Phone: +49 2461 61 5213 > Fax: +49 2461 61 6656 > E-mail: a.oc...@fz-juelich.de > WWW: http://www.fz-juelich.de/ias/jsc/EN > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH > 52425 Juelich > Sitz der Gesellschaft: Juelich > Eingetragen im Handelsregister des Amtsgerichts Dueren Nr. HR B 3498 > Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: MinDir Dr. Karl Eugen Huthmacher > Geschaeftsfuehrung: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Marquardt (Vorsitzender), > Karsten Beneke (stellv. Vorsitzender), Prof. Dr.-Ing. Harald Bolt, > Prof. Dr. Sebastian M. Schmidt > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > -- Jakob Schiøtz, professor, Ph.D. Department of Physics Technical University of Denmark DK-2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark http://www.fysik.dtu.dk/~schiotz/
