Hi Kenneth, Kenneth Hoste <[email protected]> writes:
> Hi Loris, > > On 17/04/2020 11:01, Loris Bennett wrote: >> Hi Kenneth, >> >> Kenneth Hoste <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> Hi Loris, >>> >>> I can't see anything that could explain the problem you're seeing, so I'm >>> intrigued to figure out what's going on... >>> >>> Any chance you can share a debug log for this issue (collected with "eb >>> --debug")? >>> >>> Feel free to send it to me off-list if you feel you need to, I'll just >>> extract >>> the relevant bits when I reply... >> Here's the gzipped log file with created with --debug: >> I notice the log file contains a list of modules which starts with >> >> ; stderr: /trinity/shared/easybuild/modules/all: >> >> which has following entries for Java: >> >> Java/1.8.0_162 >> Java/1.8.0_192 >> Java/1.8.0_231 >> Java/11(@Java/11.0.2) >> Java/11.0.2 >> >> Is some sort of alias thingy like >> >> Java/8(@Java/1.8.231) >> >> missing? >> >> Cheers, >> >> Loris >> > > Yes, that's the culprit, indeed... > > The reason that "module load Java/1.8" just works outside of EasyBuild is due > to > the partial version matching feature (also known as "extended defaults") that > recent Lmod versions have: if you use a module name for which there is no > exact > match, Lmod will (by default) load the latest version that partially matches > (so > Java/1.8.0_231 in this case). > > In EasyBuild, this feature is explicitly disabled though (by setting the > $LMOD_EXTENDED_DEFAULT environment variable to 'no'), because we want to > ensure > that there's a module file (or wrapper) for every dependency. > > In this case, there is no module file or wrapper for Java/1.8 in your > environment. > > It seems like you were hit by a bug we fixed in EasyBuild v3.9.1 (see [1]), > where the .modulerc files (that defines module wrappers like Java/1.8 and > Java/11) were being blindly overwritten, rather than appending aliases to an > existing .modulerc file. The Java/1.8 wrapper probably got removed when > installing the Java/11 wrapper. > > You should be able to fix the problem you're seeing by re-installing the > Java/1.8 wrapper with "eb Java-1.8.eb" (may need --force, but I don't think > so; > may need --robot if the underlying Java/1.8.x module is not installed yet, > since > the Java/1.8 is updated to newer 1.8.x versions), with a sufficiently recent > EasyBuild version. > > Afterwards, you should see an entry like "Java/8(@Java/1.8.231)" in the output > of "module --terse avail Java/", and the problem you were seeing should be > resolved... In the end I did seem to need '--force' but then everything was fine and I was able to build V8 without problem. Thanks for the help! Cheers, Loris > [1] https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-framework/pull/2848 > -- Dr. Loris Bennett (Mr.) ZEDAT, Freie Universität Berlin Email [email protected]
