Hello, I am new to Nix and am considering it for the following use case and wonder if it would work, and, if so, how best to implement it:
We run processing pipelines on two compute clusters. We control one of these, but on the other we use optimized system-wide libraries (e.g., BLAS and LAPACK compiled with Intel compilers). The cluster admins install multiple versions of each in fixed directories and use module(1) (http://linux.die.net/man/1/module) to allow users to set the appropriate paths. On both clusters, we use various makefiles/shell scripts to install multiple versions of our own software. We'd like to replace this with Nix expressions for robustness/reproducibility, but I wonder whether this makes sense given the need to set some fixed paths rather than installing the software from scratch. (Obviously the Nix expressions for the cluster's libraries wouldn't be usable anywhere else, but ideally would supply derivations for cc, blas, etc., that we could pass to our own expressions.) Thanks for any advice. Ben _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
