[easybuild] RE: Toolchains

2018-02-12 Thread Michael Coleman
Regarding pulling in OS packages, we've had some improvement on this by building EasyBuild modules _inside_ of a minimal OS Singularity container. Specifically, this one, which is a proxy for the RedHat distribution we run in production.

Re: [easybuild] Toolchains

2018-02-12 Thread McGough, Benjamin E
[I am working with John on this...] We can definitely open an issue, thanks! My gut feeling is that CMake should not be included in the toolchain; there is a precedent of depending it into packages that need it, and it looks like version conflicts do happen. To contrast, I have _never_ in my