Hi Alan,

Is EASYBUILD_MODULEPATH documented anywhere?  It is not set in my
environment and my search on the web didn't turn up any results.

Cheers,

Loris

"Alan O'Cais" <[email protected]> writes:

> 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
>
-- 
Dr. Loris Bennett (Herr/Mr)
ZEDAT, Freie Universität Berlin

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