[easybuild] easybuild new user experience

2015-02-11 Thread Stuart Barkley
y simple, mostly deleting the installation tree and the modules files. Dependencies might be tricky (indicating all the dependencies and refuse to remove would be fine). Thanks for the work on easybuild. This looks like it will address a long standing need for building stable versions of software for our u

[easybuild] Which easyconfig file is used?

2015-02-26 Thread Stuart Barkley
After a little hiatus I'm back working using easybuild to build software for our system. One issue which was confusing me for a while was some unexpected choices for the *.eb files under different conditions. I was making modifications to some of the standard .eb files by putting modified copies

[easybuild] HPCBIOS

2015-02-26 Thread Stuart Barkley
On Wed, 11 Feb 2015 at 06:21 -, Fotis Georgatos wrote: > > What do people do/recommend for multiple OS environments? We are > > currently CentOS 6 but will eventually move to C7. I'm thinking I > > will want a separate application tree for each OS > > (/projects/app-c6 and /projects/app-c7).

Re: [easybuild] Which easyconfig file is used?

2015-03-02 Thread Stuart Barkley
On Mon, 2 Mar 2015 at 12:53 -, Kenneth Hoste wrote: > What you are stumbling over is that --robot-paths (in combination > with any paths that may be specified via --robot) are not being > considered for easyconfig files that are specified on the command > line (by name-only/relative path), whi

[easybuild] dateutil and python module builds

2015-03-03 Thread Stuart Barkley
I was running into a build problem with Python similar to the one described in: https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild/issues/23 The cause in my case is that my system does not have any Internet connectivity and cannot pull anything from the Internet at build time. I had found this problem rep

Re: [easybuild] dateutil and python module builds

2015-03-05 Thread Stuart Barkley
On Wed, 4 Mar 2015 at 16:06 -, Kenneth Hoste wrote: > Unfortunately, there's no easy way to prevent this auto-downloading > and installing dependencies when installing a Python package with > "python setup.py install". Excuse the following paragraph of ranting, easybuild is still looking like

Re: [easybuild] dateutil and python module builds

2015-03-07 Thread Stuart Barkley
On Thu, 5 Mar 2015 at 12:26 -, Jens Timmerman wrote: > > > Just to clarify: the easyconfigs that are part of the EasyBuild > > > installation are meant to be treated as examples (which does not > > > mean they should contain inconsistencies like the one you > > > reported). > > This is also w

[easybuild] Dependency tree

2015-03-10 Thread Stuart Barkley
Is there a good way to see a dependency tree with easybuild (I'm now running 2.0.0)? I'm trying to reconcile different dependency requirements for my large build and am finding it difficult to determine what packages are requiring other packages. Currently I am using 'eb --dry-run --robot' to get

Re: [easybuild] dateutil and python module builds

2015-03-20 Thread Stuart Barkley
On Mon, 16 Mar 2015 at 05:27 -, Fotis Georgatos wrote: > first, sorry for reacting on this email so many days later, I wanted > to give more time to it. In fact, it’s a lengthy response (it will > be TL;DR for most others, be aware). Thanks for the response and the useful information. Not to

Re: [easybuild] Dependency tree

2015-03-20 Thread Stuart Barkley
Sorry. I missed this useful response from last week. On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 at 16:38 -, Kenneth Hoste wrote: > On 10/03/15 18:18, Stuart Barkley wrote: > > > Is there a good way to see a dependency tree with easybuild (I'm > > now running 2.0.0)? I'm trying to re

Re: [easybuild] Dependency tree

2015-05-15 Thread Stuart Barkley
Reviving a 2 month old thread. Now working with easybuild 2.1.0... On Thu, 19 Mar 2015 at 22:57 -, Stuart Barkley wrote: > > > Is there a good way to see a dependency tree with easybuild (I'm > > > now running 2.0.0)? I'm trying to reconcile different > >

Re: [easybuild] Dependency tree

2015-05-15 Thread Stuart Barkley
On Fri, 15 May 2015 at 01:47 -, Inigo Aldazabal Mensa wrote: > +1 for this. > > I also had a lot of troubles with --dep-graph dependencies. In fact > I gave up and generated the tree I wanted (it was just a toolchain > one) in a test VM. But I see myself using this quite often if > available i

Re: [easybuild] Intel toolchains and mpiicc/mpiicpc/mpiifort

2015-06-04 Thread Stuart Barkley
We have a user desiring to use the Intel compilers and Intel MPI for a performance bump in his (OpenFOAM based) code. What has been peoples experience with these versus GCC/OpenMPI? Do you see significant performance improvements? On the Intel web site, I see "Intel Parallel Studio XE 2015 (Clus

Re: [easybuild] next EasyBuild conf call: Wed July 8th, 3pm CET

2015-07-09 Thread Stuart Barkley
On Wed, 8 Jul 2015 at 11:58 -, Jack Perdue wrote: > We (EB) really need to come up with a more timely manner of > declaring toolchains. > > It's interesting... while reading this morning's mail (probably > while the telecon was going on across the pond), I noticed a > notification from Intel f

Re: [easybuild] bootstrap 2.8.1 fails in sanity check

2016-06-08 Thread Stuart Barkley
I had been away from easybuild for a while. Unfortunately I have limited access access to the system where I'm bootstrapping easybuild so may details are a little fuzzy. I recently had problems similar to the parent message (but details appear significantly different and resolved in another threa

Re: [easybuild] bootstrap 2.8.1 fails in sanity check

2016-06-11 Thread Stuart Barkley
On Wed, 8 Jun 2016 at 14:05 -, Kenneth Hoste wrote: > Please check if you're still seeing these issues at all with an > up-to-date bootstrap scripts & the latest EasyBuild (v2.8.1), if you > have some time. I have now done this with a fresh VM and v2.8.1. I think the main issue with bootstra

[easybuild] Build issue with 2.8.1 in non-Internet connected environment

2016-06-11 Thread Stuart Barkley
I'm having another issue freshening up my easybuild environment. My cluster is not directly Internet connected and compute nodes do not have any Internet access at all. In the past I've been able to build easybuild based programs once I've externally fetched the sources and placed them in a sourc

Re: [easybuild] Build issue with 2.8.1 in non-Internet connected environment

2016-06-14 Thread Stuart Barkley
Thanks. This seemed to work fine. On Mon, 13 Jun 2016 at 08:12 -, Kenneth Hoste wrote: > I patched the EasyBuildMeta easyblock so that the vsc-install source > tarball is also picked up, which should result into supporting > offline installation of EasyBuild-with-EasyBuild (note: the > boots