You are changing the EASYBUILD_INSTALLPATH, but not changing EASYBUILD_MODULEPATH. This means you are overwriting the existing module tree. You don't want this, instead you build a new module tree somewhere else. Since the tree will be empty, EasyBuild will also install all the deps.
On Fri, 2 Dec 2022 at 09:27, Loris Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ole, > > Ole Holm Nielsen <[email protected]> writes: > > > Hi Loris, > > > > On 12/2/22 08:27, Loris Bennett wrote: > >> How do I force a total rebuild of, say, a foss toolchain for a different > >> CPU architecture? > >> Up to now I had a homogeneous cluster with Intel Xeon CPUs, now we > >> have > >> acquired some nodes with AMD Epyc CPUs for which I need to build > >> software. > >> I have modified EASYBUILD_INSTALLPATH to point to directory for the > >> new > >> architecture and prepended a corresponding directory for the modules to > >> MODULEPATH. However, running EasyBuild with the option --force just > >> rebuilds the package specified, not the dependencies. > >> What is the correct way to go about this? > > > > Probably there are multiple ways to set up modules for multiple > > architectures :-) My choice was to create completely different module > > trees for each type of hardware (we have 4 generations of Intel Xeon). > > My notes are in this Wiki page: > > > https://wiki.fysik.dtu.dk/Niflheim_system/EasyBuild_modules/#automounting-the-cpu-architecture-dependent-modules-directory > > > > IHTH /Ole > > Thanks for the link. That looks like an good way of dealing with > switching between different architectures. > > However, I am not yet quite that far. My question was more to do with > how to actually rebuild the software in a second branch. If I change > EASYBUILD_INSTALLPATH and MODULEPATH as described abouve and then run > EasyBuild with force I get, say, the following: > > [build@a001 ~]$ eb Bison-3.8.2.eb --robot --force --dry-run > == Temporary log file in case of crash > /tmp/eb-akrn565i/easybuild-0vsmv95q.log > == found valid index for > /trinity/shared/easybuild/software/EasyBuild/4.6.2/easybuild/easyconfigs, > so using it... > == found valid index for > /trinity/shared/easybuild/software/EasyBuild/4.6.2/easybuild/easyconfigs, > so using it... > Dry run: printing build status of easyconfigs and dependencies > * [x] > /trinity/shared/easybuild/software/EasyBuild/4.6.2/easybuild/easyconfigs/m/M4/M4-1.4.19.eb > (module: M4/1.4.19) > * [F] > /trinity/shared/easybuild/software/EasyBuild/4.6.2/easybuild/easyconfigs/b/Bison/Bison-3.8.2.eb > (module: Bison/3.8.2) > > How to I get EasyBuild to build M4 automatically as well? > > Cheers, > > Loris > > -- > Dr. Loris Bennett (Herr/Mr) > ZEDAT, Freie Universität Berlin >
