Hello, Although we wold love to use EB in production there is still one thing that stops us from doing so. Since we need to keep the modules list in Lmod as clean as possible it is essential for us to be able to tell EB to automatically look for dependencies within hidden modules even if not explicitly listed as hiddendependencies in the easyconfig files. Let me show you with the case I am struggling with.
I want to install GCC but keep the GCCcore module hidden. As you can see from the output below if I ask to hide GCCcore it gets built twice and two modules get generated: one hidden and one visible. My understanding is that it happens because when rebuilding all dependencies with GCCcore (instead of the system GCC) they don't have GCCcore within a hiddendependencies list and since EB does not automatically scan for hidden modules it builds GCCcore again. Am I right? If so, is there any chance we will see such feature (maybe not by default but as an eb option flag) in the future? If not, what would you suggest? Obviously I could manually edit all easyconfig files by adding the hiddendependencies but that may be quite annoying in the long term. In addition, what do you think about being able to specify the "hide-deps" list directly into the easyconfig? Thanks! $ eb GCC-5.4.0-2.26.eb -D --hide-deps=M4,Bison,flex,zlib,binutils,GCCcore == temporary log file in case of crash /tmp/eb-bLnY30/easybuild-wrqlUH.log Dry run: printing build status of easyconfigs and dependencies CFGS=/opt/easybuild/software/EasyBuild/2.9.0/lib/python2.7/site-packages/easybuild_easyconfigs-2.9.0-py2.7.egg/easybuild/easyconfigs * [ ] $CFGS/m/M4/M4-1.4.17.eb (module: Core | M4/.1.4.17) * [ ] $CFGS/b/Bison/Bison-3.0.4.eb (module: Core | Bison/.3.0.4) * [ ] $CFGS/f/flex/flex-2.6.0.eb (module: Core | flex/.2.6.0) * [ ] $CFGS/z/zlib/zlib-1.2.8.eb (module: Core | zlib/.1.2.8) * [ ] $CFGS/b/binutils/binutils-2.26.eb (module: Core | binutils/.2.26) * [ ] $CFGS/g/GCCcore/GCCcore-5.4.0.eb (module: Core | GCCcore/.5.4.0) * [ ] $CFGS/g/GCCcore/GCCcore-5.4.0.eb (module: Core | GCCcore/5.4.0) * [ ] $CFGS/z/zlib/zlib-1.2.8-GCCcore-5.4.0.eb (module: Compiler/GCCcore/5.4.0 | zlib/.1.2.8) * [ ] $CFGS/m/M4/M4-1.4.17-GCCcore-5.4.0.eb (module: Compiler/GCCcore/5.4.0 | M4/.1.4.17) * [ ] $CFGS/b/Bison/Bison-3.0.4-GCCcore-5.4.0.eb (module: Compiler/GCCcore/5.4.0 | Bison/.3.0.4) * [ ] $CFGS/f/flex/flex-2.6.0-GCCcore-5.4.0.eb (module: Compiler/GCCcore/5.4.0 | flex/.2.6.0) * [ ] $CFGS/b/binutils/binutils-2.26-GCCcore-5.4.0.eb (module: Compiler/GCCcore/5.4.0 | binutils/.2.26) * [ ] $CFGS/g/GCC/GCC-5.4.0-2.26.eb (module: Core | GCC/5.4.0-2.26) == Temporary log file(s) /tmp/eb-bLnY30/easybuild-wrqlUH.log* have been removed. == Temporary directory /tmp/eb-bLnY30 has been removed. -- Davide Vanzo, PhD Application Developer Adjunct Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Advanced Computing Center for Research and Education (ACCRE) Vanderbilt University - Hill Center 201 (615)-875-9137 www.accre.vanderbilt.edu
