Re: [easybuild] Question about builddependencies and pkg-config

2016-07-12 Thread Kenneth Hoste
On 23/06/16 00:28, Adam Huffman wrote: Hi Ben, On 22 Jun 2016, at 21:31, McGough, Benjamin E wrote: I have been struggling with creating a clean environment in which to build with EasyBuild and test easyconfigs. Incidentally, I am using LXD currently to generate a clean Ubuntu container

Re: [easybuild] Question about builddependencies and pkg-config

2016-06-27 Thread Ward Poelmans
.be Subject: Re: [easybuild] Question about builddependencies and pkg-config I have been through all this...there is a PR request for it from us to use GCCcore to deliver X11, https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-easyconfigs/pull/2735/files , though even that is not as comprehensive as the build we hav

Re: [easybuild] Question about builddependencies and pkg-config

2016-06-23 Thread Fotis Georgatos
On Jun 22, 2016, at 11:28 PM, Adam Huffman wrote: > On this specific point, Robert has done some work on using containers - he > mentioned it in passing in his presentation at the user meeting. > > I think lots of us would be interested if you’re able to share your work here. +1 By now, I thi

Re: [easybuild] Question about builddependencies and pkg-config

2016-06-23 Thread Fotis Georgatos
Hello Pablo, Easybuilders, On Jun 22, 2016, at 10:35 PM, Pablo Escobar Lopez wrote: > I have followed the same road in different direction :) First I was using > system packages for most dependencies which were no scientific software like > zlib, bzip2, ncurses, libpng and similars (that's why

Re: [easybuild] Question about builddependencies and pkg-config

2016-06-23 Thread Adam Huffman
Hi Ben, > On 22 Jun 2016, at 21:31, McGough, Benjamin E wrote: > > I have been struggling with creating a clean environment in which to build > with EasyBuild and test easyconfigs. > > > Incidentally, I am using LXD currently to generate a clean Ubuntu containers, > into which I am bootstrapp

Re: [easybuild] Question about builddependencies and pkg-config

2016-06-22 Thread Alan O'Cais
I have been through all this...there is a PR request for it from us to use GCCcore to deliver X11,https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-easyconfigs/pull/2735/files , though even that is not as comprehensive as the build we have for GCC 5. I think there is a better approach leveraging jhbuild th

Re: [easybuild] Question about builddependencies and pkg-config

2016-06-22 Thread Alan O'Cais
I also have a working Visit build too but not using EB vtk, they require a double build which is hard to deliver and you need to really hack the build script to supply it. On 22 Jun 2016 11:25 p.m., "Jack Perdue" wrote: > e.g.:http://www.siliconslick.com/VTK/ > > Quite the pain lining up all

Re: [easybuild] Question about builddependencies and pkg-config

2016-06-22 Thread Alan O'Cais
I have been through all this...there is a PR request for it from us to use GCCcore to deliver X11, https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-easyconfigs/pull/2735/files , though even that is not as comprehensive as the build we have for GCC 5. I think there is a better approach leveraging jhbuild that

Re: [easybuild] Question about builddependencies and pkg-config

2016-06-22 Thread Pablo Escobar Lopez
2016-06-22 22:57 GMT+02:00 Jack Perdue : > On 06/22/2016 03:31 PM, McGough, Benjamin E wrote: > > I have been struggling with creating a clean environment in which to > build with EasyBuild and test easyconfigs. > > I wish I could be pardoned if I just left a: > > 8^) > > and walked away... >

Re: [easybuild] Question about builddependencies and pkg-config

2016-06-22 Thread Jack Perdue
e.g.:http://www.siliconslick.com/VTK/ Quite the pain lining up all the X11 stuff... jack (still working on it for a proper VisIt... need the Qt OpenGL) On 06/22/2016 03:57 PM, Jack Perdue wrote: On 06/22/2016 03:31 PM, McGough, Benjamin E wrote: I have been struggling with creating a clean

Re: [easybuild] Question about builddependencies and pkg-config

2016-06-22 Thread Jack Perdue
On 06/22/2016 03:31 PM, McGough, Benjamin E wrote: I have been struggling with creating a clean environment in which to build with EasyBuild and test easyconfigs. I wish I could be pardoned if I just left a: 8^) and walked away... You are not alone. On our present cluster, I have done t

[easybuild] Question about builddependencies and pkg-config

2016-06-22 Thread McGough, Benjamin E
I have been struggling with creating a clean environment in which to build with EasyBuild and test easyconfigs. Our build host is used to build other software and has a large number of "-dev" packages installed. I have found this to interfere with EasyBuild builds and it is currently blocking m