On 04-01-17 11:01, Kenneth Hoste wrote: > > > On 04/01/2017 02:41, Jack Perdue wrote: >> On 01/03/2017 06:55 PM, Exequiel Sepúlveda wrote: >>> >>> 1.- Why are GCC and binutils needed on the easyconfigure file >>> intel-2017.00.eb >> >> See other response. Additionally, the Intel compilers depend >> upon an underlying GCC (with its own underlying binutils), >> so needs to be included.
Correct. For example, to use C++11, you need a recent GCC version. So we let Easybuild control everything. >>> 2.- Because I have only a big tar.gz file with Intel Cluster Edition, >>> how could I separate the required parts to use easyconfigs file for >>> icc, ifort, imkl, etc. >> >> You need to download all the individual, offline, downloads >> for the different packages from the Intel site, not the great big one. > > This is the current situation, indeed, but we can work out a way to > install icc, ifort, impi and imkl from the single big .tar.gz. Well, actually it should work (but I haven't tried it). We specify the list of components for icc and ifort so even if you use the big tarball, it should just install what is needed. Ward
