Hi!
The easyblock does not pull in any build dependencies, so unless specified you
do not have any other tools than the ones that may happen to be installed on
your system.
Please note that (GNU) Make and Automake are two completely different pieces of
software. In EasyBuild there's an Autotools bundle of Autoconf and Automake.
Make is typically provided by your operating system packages.
You should probably pull in a build dependency like `('Autotools',
'20200321'),` to have a good Autotools installation available.
A common pattern in existing easyconfigs is to use `preconfigopts` to inject
things to run before the configure command, like:
preconfigopts = 'make && '
With kind regards,
Lars
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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on
behalf of Loris Bennett <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2021 11:34:59 AM
To: easybuild
Subject: [easybuild] 'make' required before 'configure/make'
Hi,
I'm looking the installation instructions for Macaulay2
https://github.com/Macaulay2/M2/blob/release-1.17/M2/INSTALL
in which is says
Begin with this command:
make
The "make" command above runs the commands "autoconf" and "autoheader", which
create the "configure" script and the "include/config.h.in" file, needed in
the
next steps. Once those files are created, it is not necessary to make them
again. The "make" command on your system should be a recent version of GNU
make.
Now continue building the program this way:
./configure --enable-download --prefix=/foo/bar
make
make check # optional
make install
My naive approach was use
easyblock = 'ConfigureMake'
with
configure_cmd = 'make && ./configure'
but this results in the error
error: the automake program installed on your system (automake is
/usr/bin/automake) is too old.
Please install or update automake: the version (1.13.4) should be at least
1.16.
make[2]: Entering directory
`/trinity/shared/easybuild/build/Macaulay2/1.17/foss-2020b/M2-release-1.17/M2'
So it seems that the system 'make' is being used rather than the one
from the EB toolchain.
How should I deal with this pre-configure 'make'?
Cheers,
Loris
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Dr. Loris Bennett (Hr./Mr.)
ZEDAT, Freie Universität Berlin Email [email protected]
