On 2/22/19 1:24 PM, Lars Viklund wrote:
A system C and C++ compiler is documented as a required dependency of EasyBuild
if you are to install toolchains with it:

   
https://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Installation.html#required-dependencies

As such, I would argue that it's not worth declaring it up-front in 
osdependencies
in all software that needs a system compiler, particularly as the package
will be named differently on different distros.

Thanks for pointing this out!  I agree with you.

It's all too easy to miss the general EB prerequisites/dependencies when installing a new node. I've added the CentOS 7 specifics to my EB Wiki page:
https://wiki.fysik.dtu.dk/niflheim/EasyBuild_modules#easybuild-prerequisites

/Ole

From: easybuild-requ...@lists.ugent.be <easybuild-requ...@lists.ugent.be> on behalf 
of Ole Holm Nielsen <ole.h.niel...@fysik.dtu.dk>
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2019 09:11
To: easybuild@lists.ugent.be
Subject: Re: [easybuild] Building foss-2019a fails in binutils-2.31.1.eb 
(Skylake node)

Hi Olivier,

On 2/20/19 10:18 PM, Olivier Mattelaer wrote:
I actually face the same issue.

The actual error message is this one:

configure: error: in
`/usr/local/Software/build/lm3-w091/binutils/2.31.1/dummy-/binutils-2.31.1/gold':
configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check
See `config.log' for more details
yes
checking whether compiling a cross-assembler... no
checking for size_t... checking locale.h usability... make[1]: ***
[configure-gold] Error 1
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....


I guess that doing: "yum install gcc-c++" would solve the issue.
But I have not tested yet. But does it make sense to do that?

Your suggestion fixed the problem with binutils: yum install gcc-c++
Now it build correctly, and the foss-2019a build process is continuing.

What's the root cause of this issue?  I'm guessing that the EB file
.../EasyBuild/3.8.1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/easybuild_easyconfigs-3.8.1-py2.7.egg/easybuild/easyconfigs/b/binutils/binutils-2.31.1.eb

must include gcc-c++ as an osdependencies package.

If this guess is correct, I could open an issue.

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