Re: [easybuild] Conf calls scheduling

2015-10-30 Thread Robert Schmidt
What is the current general schedule? Bi-weekly? Maybe we should do one in austin to include people who couldn't make it? I'm pretty flexible generally, but making them predictable probably makes things easier. Biggest problem is time I think to cover a reasonable set of timezones. So lets try

Re: [easybuild] cannot build old GCC on recent Ubuntu

2015-10-30 Thread Ward Poelmans
On 30-10-15 10:41, Martin wrote: > On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 2:37 AM, Riccardo Murri > wrote: > > > Why, oh why, would you need a GCC that old on a recent system? > > To compile code that was known to compile correctly with GCC 4.5 and

Re: [easybuild] cannot build old GCC on recent Ubuntu

2015-10-30 Thread Ward Poelmans
On 29-10-15 02:37, Riccardo Murri wrote: > 2. have `EB_GCC` supply `MAKEINFO=missing` in all stages when the >build-dependencies are ignored. > > If you don't have 1. then build will fail on all distributions that have > texinfo >= 5.0.0; but 2. is needed because `builddependencies` are >

Re: [easybuild] Conf calls scheduling

2015-10-30 Thread Kenneth Hoste
Hi Lumír, On 30/10/15 11:27, Lumír Jasiok wrote: Hello everyone, I would like to discuss possible Easybuild conf calls scheduling enhancements. Right now there is (unconfirmed) list of future conf calls on https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild/wiki/Conference-calls Problem is, that I

[easybuild] Conf calls scheduling

2015-10-30 Thread Lumír Jasiok
Hello everyone, I would like to discuss possible Easybuild conf calls scheduling enhancements. Right now there is (unconfirmed) list of future conf calls on https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild/wiki/Conference-calls Problem is, that I need manually create calendar events for conf calls and

Re: [easybuild] cannot build old GCC on recent Ubuntu

2015-10-30 Thread Martin
Hi, On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 2:37 AM, Riccardo Murri wrote: > > Why, oh why, would you need a GCC that old on a recent system? > > To compile code that was known to compile correctly with GCC 4.5 and is > no longer accepted by GCC 4.9. (Later on, I found about

Re: [easybuild] cannot build old GCC on recent Ubuntu

2015-10-30 Thread Fotis Georgatos
Hi Riccardo, all, On Oct 28, 2015, at 9:56 PM, Riccardo Murri wrote: > Maybe the `EB_GCC` easyblock could be patched to add `MAKEINFO=missing` > in the initial steps, and only build documentation in the last step, > when it's actually useful? (and build dependencies are