Re: [easybuild] Workload managers support

2017-03-14 Thread Christopher Samuel
On 15/03/17 08:40, Xavier Besseron wrote: > On our site, we have to maintain a couple of patches to integrate > properly with our resource manager. Likewise here - having to patch every possible Open-MPI version with the various different flags needed was a large part of what led to us junking al

Re: [easybuild] HPC Testing Framework Collaboration

2017-03-14 Thread Xavier Besseron
Hi Shahzeb, This looks like an interesting contribution. I have a few comments for you below. - I agree with the comments of Kenneth, especially when he says you need to "have some way of defining both version-agnostic and version-specific tests". I would extend the constraint to the module name

Re: [easybuild] Workload managers support

2017-03-14 Thread Xavier Besseron
This seems like a great idea. On our site, we have to maintain a couple of patches to integrate properly with our resource manager. Once there is a first prototype, I can contribute for the OAR resource manager (http://oar.imag.fr/). Best, Xavier On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 10:54 AM, Alvarez, D

ΠΡΟΣ: Re: [easybuild] Why is MKL linked statically and other BLAS not?

2017-03-14 Thread Fotis Georgatos
Hi, I can't remember the why, but I recall that with closed source software the incentives are stronger to have it static. Any offers on this? It could have been that debugging conflicting APIs is totally avoided, since without source they are impossible to reconcile. F. Αποστολή από κινητό

RE: [easybuild] RE: R-3.3.1-foss build error

2017-03-14 Thread Siddiqui, Shahzeb
The only difference I see is I am using binutils 2.27. I copied the files from GCC-5.4.0-2.26 and renamed the version. This is an issue I had before. I had issues building libtool with GCCcore. I had this same problem with PCRE-8.38 and few other packages. I would like to build some stuff with G

Re: [easybuild] RE: R-3.3.1-foss build error

2017-03-14 Thread Kenneth Hoste
Hi Shahzeb, On 14/03/2017 17:27, Siddiqui, Shahzeb wrote: I think the problem I am having is a mixture of dependencies using GCC and foss toolchain. I build LibTIFF with GCC while I build PROJ and GDAL with foss. They all build fine, but the rpackage doesn’t work. I have run across this iss

RE: [easybuild] RE: R-3.3.1-foss build error

2017-03-14 Thread Siddiqui, Shahzeb
I think the problem I am having is a mixture of dependencies using GCC and foss toolchain. I build LibTIFF with GCC while I build PROJ and GDAL with foss. They all build fine, but the rpackage doesn't work. I have run across this issue with numerous other packages. For instance Autotools bundle

Re: [easybuild] RE: R-3.3.1-foss build error

2017-03-14 Thread Kenneth Hoste
On 13/03/2017 16:52, Siddiqui, Shahzeb wrote: Hi, So now I was able to get further into my R build, that’s great but I now encounter an issue with rgdal which seems to be an issue with PROJ. I think current version of rgdal requires PROJ 4.8.0 or lower, I think this was not captured in the R

Re: [easybuild] RE: R-3.3.1-foss build error

2017-03-14 Thread Kenneth Hoste
On 13/03/2017 14:22, Siddiqui, Shahzeb wrote: Ok so we would add NLopt as a dependency in R easyconfig. Will this fix the installation for nloptr? I would think we would also need NLopt for other toolchains like foss, intel so those could build also. We usually flesh out extensions tha

[easybuild] next EasyBuild conf call: Wed Mar 15th 2017, 5pm CET

2017-03-14 Thread Kenneth Hoste
Dear EasyBuilders, The next EasyBuild conf call is planned for Wednesday March 15th 2017, 5pm CET; see also https://plus.google.com/events/c1f3gt69hoashfluir48htdsols . Current agenda: * outlook to EasyBuild v3.1.2 * update on automatic style checking for easyconfig pull requests * IRC

Re: [easybuild] Why is MKL linked statically and other BLAS not?

2017-03-14 Thread Åke Sandgren
+1 on that. On 03/14/2017 12:25 PM, Kenneth Hoste wrote: > We can certainly enhance this so you get the choice, e.g. via a > toolchain option named 'blas_link_static'? -- Ake Sandgren, HPC2N, Umea University, S-90187 Umea, Sweden Internet: a...@hpc2n.umu.se Phone: +46 90 7866134 Fax: +46 90-5

Re: [easybuild] Why is MKL linked statically and other BLAS not?

2017-03-14 Thread Kenneth Hoste
Dear Bart, On 13/03/2017 13:43, Bart Oldeman wrote: Hi, in framework intelmkl.py it says: BLAS_LIB_STATIC = True (hardcoded, not an option) I'm not sure why this is only done for Intel MKL, and not for other BLAS/LAPACK libraries. This was done as a part of a *big* refactor years ago (when w