Hi Kenneth, thanks for the help. I also read about the triple quotes. Unfortunately I get the same error as before (from the config.log):
configure:4560: mpiicc -O2 -xHost -ftz -fp-speculation=safe -fp-model source -fPIC -D_Float32=float -D_Float64='long double' -I... icc: error #10236: File not found: 'double'' I will try to compile HDF5 tomorrow by hand to make sure its really an EB issue and not just related to how configure works or the intel compiler. Best Sebastian > Am 21.11.2018 um 22:06 schrieb Kenneth Hoste <[email protected]>: > > Dear Sebastian, > > How about this: > > preconfigopts = """CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -D_Float32=float -D_Float64='long double'" > """ > > In Python, you can use triple quotes (""") to define string values that have > both single and double quotes (or newlines) in them. > > Note that I'm also avoiding that you're hard overwriting the $CFLAGS defined > by EasyBuild (I need to use double quotes CFLAGS="$CFLAGS ..." to ensure that > bash will expand the $CFLAGS with the value defined by EasyBuild, single > quotes would prevent expansion...). > > I hope this helps... > > regards, > > Kenneth > > On 21/11/2018 21:43, Sebastian Potthoff wrote: >> Dear EasyBuilders, >> I need help. I would like to compile HDF5 on the intel-2018b toolchain. My >> problem is that the hosts are running on Ubuntu 18.04.1 which means glibc >> 2.27. This again means some incompatibilities regarding the intel 2018 >> compilers, see these two threads: >> https://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/intel-c-compiler/topic/742701 >> https://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/intel-c-compiler/topic/777003 >> A workaround for now seems to be to set the following CFLAGS beforehand: >> * >> * >> *-DFloat32=float -D_Float64='long double' -D_Float32x=double >> -D_Float64x='long double'* >> * >> * >> When I call mpiicc by hand using those flags (on some test file) everything >> seems fine (no complains here). >> So I downloaded the HDF5-1.10.2-intel-2018b.eb easyconfig file and modified >> it to include *preconfigopts* and *buildopts (*are these the correct ones >> btw? HDF5 is using configure*). *For the *opts lines I tried e.g. the >> following variants (I didn’t include all of them for example purposes). The >> errors I get when I try to build are in the line below (red): >> *preconfigopts = 'CFLAGS="-D_Float32=float -D_Float64=long double“* >> *>> config.log >> File not found: 'double'* >> * >> * >> *preconfigopts = 'CFLAGS="-D_Float32=float -D_Float64=\'long double\'"'* >> *>> config.log >> File not found: 'double''* >> * >> * >> *preconfigopts = 'CFLAGS="-D_Float32=float -D_Float64="long double""'* >> *>> EasyBuild.log >> double: command not found* >> * >> * >> If I only pass one flag without spaces in the argument (e.g. >> *'CFLAGS="-D_Float32=float**“'*) it works fine until I run into the errors >> mentioned in the two links above. >> * >> * >> I tried many more variants, but I gave up at some point. I am having some >> combination of Python string problem with spaces in CFLAGS variables as well >> as passing multiple compiler options at once and how to specify them >> correctly in the easyconfig file. If someone can help me out here, I would >> be very grateful. >> Many thanks, >> Sebastian
