Dear Loris, I have been doing it by making a patch (between /dev/null and the actual file), and add that patch to the easybuild config. See e.g. the files for GPAW-19-8-1 in the develop branch (or the merged pull request here: https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/pull/8768/files )
Best regards Jakob > On 26 Aug 2019, at 9:32, Loris Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > If I need to create a new file as part of the installation, such as a > config file, what is the canonical way of doing this? Do I just echo > the information to a file in 'install_cmd' or, probably better, > 'postinstallcmds'[1]? Or is there some more pythonic approach? > > Cheers, > > Loris > > Footnotes: > [1] Would it make sense to consolidate the naming scheme, e.g. to replace > 'postinstallcmds' with 'postinstall_cmd'? > > -- > Dr. Loris Bennett (Mr.) > ZEDAT, Freie Universität Berlin Email [email protected] -- Jakob Schiøtz, professor, Ph.D. Department of Physics Technical University of Denmark DK-2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark http://www.fysik.dtu.dk/~schiotz/
