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This file contains a description of the major changes to the easybuild-easyblocks EasyBuild package.
For more detailed information, please see the git log.
These release notes can also be consulted at http://easybuild.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Release_notes.html.
The latest version of easybuild-easyblocks provides 211 software-specific easyblocks and 36 generic easyblocks.
v4.1.0 (December 4th 2019)
--------------------------
update/bugfix release
- new software-specific easyblock for cuDNN, to allow setting cudnnarch (#1855)
- refactored software-specific easyblock for Xmipp, based on Scons (#1837)
- minor enhancements, including:
- add prebuildopts to Bazel build command (#1838)
- add support to Toolchain generic easyblock for defining $EB* environment variables for toolchain components that use an external module (#1849)
- add support for running 'pip check' during sanity check in generic PythonPackage easyblock (#1853)
- various bug fixes, including:
- clean up /tmp/cuda-installer.log in CUDA easyblock, to avoid segfault in cuda-installer (#1835)
- minor fix to name of Gctf binary (#1840)
- move BLAS toolchain existence check earlier in SuperLU easyblock (#1842)
- fixes for TensorFlow easyblocks w.r.t. Bazel build options & __init__ in top-level google-protobuf package dir (#1843)
- fix support for sequential version in MUMPS easyblock (#1845)
- change default value of files_to_copy to None in MakeCp generic easyblock + code cleanup & use change_dir, copy_dir, copy_file and mkdir function from filetools (#1848)
- prepend -L$EBROOTZLIB/lib to LDFLAGS in SCOTCH easyblock (#1850)
- improve configuration in netCDF and netcdf4_python easyblocks (#1852)
- fix CUDA header paths for TensorFlow versions < 1.14 (#1854)
- handle incorrect regex better in generic CmdCp easyblock (#1861)
- add missing docstrings in cmakeninja easyblock (#1867)
other changes:
- add GitHub Actions workflow to run easybuild-easyblocks test suite (#1844)
v4.0.1 (October 15th 2019)
--------------------------
update/bugfix release
- one new generic easyblock: CMakeNinja (#1829)
- new software-specific easyblock for Gctf (#1827), MotionCor2 (#1819)
- minor enhancements, including:
- update OpenFOAM easyblock for changes in version 1906 w.r.t. wmake rules (#1772)
- add %(cudaarch)s template variable so that it can be used in CUDA sources (#1797)
- update Boost easyblock for versions >=1.71.0 (#1814)
- update RepeatMasker easyblock for version 4.0.9 (#1815)
- add --verbose flag to 'pip install' when running EB in debug mode (#1822)
- update TensorFlow easyblock to support TensorFlow 2.0 (#1823)
- add support in TensorFlow easyblock to run a custom test script as smoke test (#1824)
- add support for installing QScintilla on top of PyQt5 (#1825)
- update VEP easyblock to make installation compatible with Bio::EnsEMBL::XS (#1828)
- various bug fixes, including:
- enhance TensorFlow easyblock to support installing TF 1.14.0 with CUDA and MPI support (#1811, #1816)
- avoid UnicodeDecodeError when reading 'configure' script and checking for 'Generated by GNU Autoconf' in ConfigureMake (#1817, #1821)
- don't require 'python' command to install libxml2 without Python bindings (#1818)
- make sure "generic=True" actually turns on generic build in GCC easyblock (#1826)
- fix compatibility of Trilinos easyblock with Python 3 (#1831)
v4.0.0 (September 20th 2019)
----------------------------
feature release
- fixes due to backwards-incompatible changes in easyBuild-framework v4.0.0
- use is_system_toolchain() rather than checking toolchain name against DUMMY_TOOLCHAIN_NAME constant (#1690, #1728)
- fix compatibility of various easyblocks with Python 3 (#1640, #1644, #1648, #1721, #1794, #1808, #1795, #1796, #1807, #1809)
- new software-specific easyblocks for OpenMPI (#1789, #1801), iccifort (#1799) and numexpr (#1803, #1804)
- various other enhancements, including:
- removed checks for Boussinesq and sonic solvers for OpenFOAM 7, since those have been deprecated (#1733)
- update Paraver easyblock to support recent versions (#1790)
- various bug fixes, including:
- update the PyPI trove classifiers (#1723)
- make the plugins build use the correct Tcl library version in VMD easyblock (#1786)
- use *_MT libs for BLAS/LAPACK only if openmp is enabled in Trilinos easyblock (#1791)
- filter out empty entries in $CPATH or $C_INCLUDE_PATH when building Perl, since that breaks the build (#1800)
- set $XDG_CACHE_HOME in TensorFlow easyblock to avoid that pip (ab)uses $HOME/.cache (#1802)
- don't load modules for dependencies in CrayToolchain.prepare_step (#1805)
- other changes:
- drop requirement for setuptools as runtime dependency (#1689)
- enable 'check_ldshared' in generic PythonPackage easyblock by default for recent Python versions (#1788)
- stop trying to use setuptools.setup in setup.py, always use distutils.core.setup instead (#1793)
v3.9.4 (August 23rd 2019)
-------------------------
update/bugfix release
- new software-specific easyblock for MSM (#1770, #1775, #1776)
- minor enhancements, including:
- allow specifying the license file directly in MATLAB easyblock (#1712)
- enhance CPLEX easyblock to also build Python bindings (#1738)
- workaround for XCrySDen for Tcl 8.6 (#1749)
- update WIEN2k easyblock to support version 19.1 (#1758)
- resolve custom %(cudaarch)s template value for CUDA sources (#1766)
- enhance sanity check for Blender to make sure that Cycles render engine is available (#1779)
- various bug fixes, including:
- only check for qtwebengine in custom easyblock for Qt(5) if glibc is sufficiently recent (#1771)
- correctly define comp.src in Bundle easyblock, to fix compatibility with easyblocks that leverage self.src (#1777)
- fix Bundle.check_checksums to checksums for extensions are also checked (#1778)
v3.9.3 (July 8th 2019)
----------------------
update/bugfix release
- minor enhancements, including:
- also install docs and demos in Rosetta easyblock (#1745)
- update HEALPix easyblock to work with latest version of HEALPix' configure.sh (#1752)
- make HPCG log pattern more generic, it changed in 3.1 (#1753)
- allow bootstrapping GCC with profile-guided optimizations (#1756)
- only require vsc-base for EasyBuild 2.x and 3.x in EasyBuildMeta easyblock (#1757)
- extend question patterns with 'https' URL entry in Modeller easyblock for recent verisons (#1762)
- modextrapaths implemented on easyblock level, sanity_check_step, gcc_target added in HEALPix easyblock (#1763)
- update OpenBLAS easyblock to be aware of POWER9 support in OpenBLAS 0.3.6 (#1765)
- various bug fixes, including:
- stick to Ubuntu Trusty when testing with Python 2.6 in Travis (#1751)
- fix scripts installation path in SNPhylo easyblock (#1759)
- be more patient when running interactive Allwmake.firstInstall command for recent OpenFOAM-Extend versions (#1761)
- also add --without-go configure option for SWIG as we "disable everything by default" (#1754)
- don't assume cmake arguments when configure_cmd is set in CMakeMake easyblock (#1750)
v3.9.2 (June 9th 2019)
----------------------
update/bugfix release
- new software-specific easyblock for ELPA (#1621)
- minor enhancements, including:
- allow Boost to build both Python2 and Python3 libraries (#1718)
- update CPLEX sanity check: convert tool was removed in CPLEX 12.8 (#1737)
- don't try to patch CROSSTOOL script for recent Bazel versions (since it's no longer there) (#1741)
- various bug fixes, including:
- fix version check on using '-log' option to 'Allwmake' in OpenFOAM easyblock (#1739)
- fix GROMACS easyblock for list-type configopts (#1740)
- fix configure step for GROMACS version < 4.6 (#1742)
v3.9.1 (May 20th 2019)
----------------------
update/bugfix release
- one new generic easyblock: CMakeMakeCp (#1725)
- new software-specific easyblock for Blender (#1595), Lua (#1396), OpenBLAS (#1693, #1697)
- OpenBLAS easyblock also supports installation on POWER systems
- minor enhancements, including:
- enhance VMD easyblock to also build Surf & Stride + pick up netCDF for VMD >= 1.9.3 (#1314)
- update CGAL easyblock to support CGAL 4.12 & newer (#1679)
- update QuantumESPRESSO easyblock for v6.4.1 (#1692)
- enhance Advisor & VTune easyblocks, since no license is required starting with version 2019u3 (#1694, #1695)
- handle new multi-deps Python setup with $EBPYTHONPREFIXES for Tensorflow (#1702)
- make CHARMM easyblock pick up on prebuildopts and runtest (#1707)
- change default value for 'use_pip' to None, so we can discriminate from 'use_pip' being set to False explicitly (#1709)
- make PythonPackage aware of (pre)testopts (#1715)
- enable GPU offloading in Clang if CUDA is included as a dep (#1716)
- add support to Clang easyblock for also building libc++ and RTTI (#1717)
- rebuild internal libfabric for impi 2019.x & more recent (#1730)
- update Q&A patterns in SAS easyblock for version 9.4 + add support for custom license file path (#1731)
- various bug fixes, including:
- only install mkl-dnn by default with TensorFlow on x86-64 systems (#1666)
- make sure ldconfig can be found before using it in CUDA easyblock (#1684)
- use temporary directory for pip cache (rather than $HOME/.cache/pip) in PythonPackage easyblock (#1687)
- allow oversubscription when testing FFTW on top of OpenMPI >= 3.0 (#1688)
- make sure ~/.cache/pip isn't used while installing Tkinter (#1691)
- set default exts_filter in PythonBundle, so already installed extensions in a bundle can be skipped (#1701)
- instruct Bazel to not use $HOME/.cache/bazel in TensorFlow easyblock (#1704)
- also set $XDG_CACHE_HOME during installation of Python, to ensure that 'pip' that comes along with it doesn't touch $HOME/.cache/pip (#1705)
- use fp-model precise if FMA instructions are missing in GROMACS easyblock (#1706)
- make sure Perl install dir follows a standard format (#1708)
- attach source_urls directly to sources for components in generic Bundle easyblock (#1711)
- avoid that --no-build-isolation option is specified multiple times in PythonPackage easyblock (#1713)
- fix prefix in impi compiler wrappers (#1727)
- only embed zlib in binutils if it is listed a build dependency (#1732)
- other changes:
- fix Python classifiers in setup.py, should be (only) Python 2.6 & 2.7 (#1724)
v3.9.0 (April 12th 2019)
------------------------
feature release
- new software-specific easyblock for TensorRT (#1627)
- minor enhancements, including:
- make sure CMake doesn't pick up on system Boost in CMakeMake generic easyblock (#1618)
- modified ConfigureMake and CMakeMake generic easyblocks to allow changing configure_cmd, build_cmd and install_cmd to fit various needs (#1628, #1658)
- update ANSYS easyblock to deal with changed versioning scheme (#1631)
- add extra path to builddir for SNPhylo >= 20160204 (#1632)
- add better support for TensorRT to TensorFlow (#1634)
- add support for newer versions of wxPython to wxPython easyblock (#1635)
- update OCaml easyblock to support OPAM 2.x (#1638)
- update sanity check in TensorFlow easyblock for TensorFlow 1.13.x (#1642)
- make ConfigureMake, MesonNinja and SCons generic easyblock aware of pretestopts (#1645)
- add support for installing Python packages with 'pip' without using --ignore-installed (#1647)
- add support to CMakeMake easyblock to specify compilers using absolute file path (#1652, #1655)
- stop checking for deprecated pgf77 in sanity check of PGI easyblock (#1653)
- acommodate version 10.1 in CUDA easyblock (#1654)
- install sitecustomize.py with Python to support Python package installations for multiple Python versions in a single directory (#1657)
- enhance SAMtools easyblock to also install libhts.a and include/htslib (when applicable) (#1661)
- tweak PythonPackage & PythonBundle to update $EBPYTHONPREFIXES rather than $PYTHONPATH for multi-Python installations + make sanity_check_step aware of multi_deps (#1664, #1678)
- replace -openmp with -fopenmp when building TINKER with Intel compilers (+ modernize easyblock) (#1668)
- make sure Meson is configured with -Dlibdir=lib so it doesn't install libraries in lib/x86_64-linux-gnu on Debian/Ubuntu multiarch systems (#1673)
- allow for external libfabric via ofi_libfabric parameter in impi easyblock (#1676)
- pass down compiler names and options to Qt5 5.8 & more recent via corresponding QMAKE_* configuration options (#1677)
- various bug fixes, including:
- create symlinks to .modulerc in symlinked module directories (#1636)
- add missing import in FFTW easyblock (#1641)
- fix finding of Python 3 include subdir + libpython*.so in OpenBabel easyblock (#1633)
- add no_qa pattern for interactive installation command for ABAQUS (#1637)
- make serial, smpar and dm+sm builds of WRF work and pass tests (#1646)
- configure CP2K with correct DATA_DIR value rather than relying on $CP2K_DATA_DIR environment variable (#1650)
- CP2K fixes: only call configure_LAPACK/ScaLAPACK when imkl is not used, prefer using 2^2 MPI processes for tests (#1651)
- also take into account custom easyconfig parameters from CMakeMake in BamTools easyblock (#1656)
- make sure Perl scripts are installed in the right location (#1660)
- make sure setenv is used for CUDA_PATH etc. (#1663)
- cleanup sanity_check_paths in numpy & scipy easyblocks (#1665, #1667)
- always set self.pylibdir in PythonPackage.set_pylibdirs(), which is important when installing Python packages for multiple Python versions via multi_deps (#1671)
- fix custom definition of load_module method in LAPACK module (#1675)
- other changes:
- replace 'except OSError, err:' pattern with 'except OSError as err:' (for compatibility with Python 3.x) (#1639)
- clean up Java easyblock to use filetools functionality (#1649)
v3.8.1 (January 29th 2019)
--------------------------
bugfix/update release
- minor enhancements, including:
- update Ferret easyblock to handle Ferret 7.3 (#1349)
- add support for defining $LDSHARED when installing Python packages if Python's value doesn't use toolchain compiler ($CC) (#1455)
- update CP2K easyblock to add support for CP2K 6.1, and fix incorrect LibInt references (#1545)
- make OpenFOAM easyblock handle debug build (#1609)
- handle multiple installation keys for MATLAB (#1610)
- run 'make check' in parallel for GROMACS since it involves more compilation (#1611)
- update OpenCV easyblock for recent versions (3.4.x >= 3.4.4 + 4.0.x) (#1616)
- various bug fixes, including:
- check current start_dir value before appending 'src' subdirectory in MrBayes easyblock (#1582)
- avoid that (system) Intel compilers are always considered when building SuiteSparse (#1612)
- fix missing import statement in ROOT easyblock (#1614)
- answer SELinux question with 'no' in Mathematica easyblock (#1617)
- disable 'build isolation' feature in pip > 10.x in PythonPackage generic easyblock (#1623)
- other changes
- cleanup in Perl and PerlModule easyblocks (#1603)
v3.8.0 (December 18th 2018)
---------------------------
feature release
- new generic easyblocks:
- PythonBundle for installing a bundle of Python packages (#1553)
- MesonNinja for installing using Meson & Ninja (#1561)
- new software specific easyblock for RepeatMasker (#1600)
- minor enhancements, including:
- add -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks compiler flag for OpenFOAM versions older than v3.0 (#1311)
- add support for building Tau with OTF included as dependency (#1313)
- add support for Intel MPI version 2019 (#1546)
- also populate the include dir for CP2K (#1554)
- add custom easyconfig parameter in GCC easyblock to control use of gold linker: use_gold_linker (#1555)
- replace '-' with '_' in default 'import' check for Python packages (#1560)
- update WRF and WPS to support version 4 (#1563)
- adapt PSI easyblock for PSI4 > 1.2 (#1568)
- update Siesta easyblock to 4.1-b4 and add custom test_step (#1573)
- enhance Mothur easyblock to support use of Boost and HDF5 as dependencies (#1576)
- enhance sanity check for icc & ifort: also check for compilers_and_libraries_*/linux subdirectory (#1577)
- update Trinity easyblock for latest version 2.8 (#1579)
- add version check in sanity check step of SCOTCH easyblock (+ code cleanup) (#1580)
- add support in Clang easyblock to skip running of all tests (#1584)
- update WRF easyblock to allow serial HDF5 + pick up on parallel netCDF (#1592)
- avoid hardcoding 'PREFIX=<installdir>' in build/install options when using SCons easyblock (#1594)
- enable TensorFlow to detect any MPI runtime (#1597)
- enhance Bundle easyblock to allow installation of bundle components with additional easyblocks + build components in parallel (#1598)
- enhance Trilinos easyblock to support building against MKL (#1601)
- various bug fixes, including:
- make FDTD_Solutions easyblock do the install by copying files instead of 'rpm rebuild' (#1307)
- re-add missing VT_(S)LIB_DIR env variable to itac module (#1309)
- fix in QuantumESPRESSO easyblock: ifort compiler needs -assume byterecl (#1556)
- extract targets from buildopts in Quantumespresso easyblock (#1558)
- fixes for TensorFlow easyblock (#1559)
- pass $PYTHONPATH while building TensorFlow
- disable cross-compilation mode if optarch is set
- fix sanity check for installing TensorFlow as extension
- added a test to disable compiling FFTW with MPI if the toolchain does not support MPI (#1562)
- fix permissions problem with CUDA nvvp tar files + correctly handle numactl symlink in LLVM subdir in PGI easyblock (#1569)
- fix TensorFlow test tempdir problem (#1572)
- tweak VMD easyblock so that configopts don't contain duplicate values (otherwise it fails to rebuild) (#1575)
- fix running netcdf4-python tests to also support installation as extension (#1578)
- added the openmp flags in the linker flags in MUMPS easyblock (#1585)
- avoid hardcoding --with-rdma configure option in MVAPICH2 easyblock (#1586)
- fix location of path-to-source argument in configure command of CMakeMake (#1591)
- fix GROMACS use of MKL for non-Intel compilers (e.g. gomkl toolchain) (#1596)
- other changes
- inform Hound CI about Python 2 builtins (#1604)
v3.7.1 (October 18th 2018)
--------------------------
bugfix/update release
- new software specific easyblock for fastStructure (#1529)
- minor enhancements, including:
- support bypassing use of system type obtained with recent config.guess in ConfigureMake (#1531)
- enhance generated module file for FreeSurfer (#1543)
- add option in Qt easyblock to check for QtWebEngine component in sanity check (#1544)
- also install CP2K as a library + code cleanup in CP2K easyblock (#1547)
- various bug fixes, including:
- fix checking for downloaded dependencies for stand-alone installations in PythonPackage generic easyblock (#1530)
- also specify --host option to configure script based on config.guess result in ConfigureMake easyblock (#1532)
- use short module name when creating module wrapper in ModuleRC generic easyblock (#1535)
- use DOT_MODULERC constant in ModuleRC easyblock rather than hardcoding '.modulerc' (#1533)
- use --no-deps when installing .whl in TensorFlow easyblock if extension are being installed, move test run to sanity check (#1537)
- use os.getcwd() rather than self.startdir in TensorFlow easyblock to fix installation of TensorFlow as extension in a bundle (#1540)
- add symlink to wrapped module file when creating .modulerc in temporary location (#1539)
- properly handle Python dependency in Qscintilla easyblock (#1499)
- other changes:
- cleanup Tarball easyblock by using copy_dir function (#1541)
v3.7.0 (September 25th 2018)
----------------------------
feature release
- new generic easyblock ModuleRC (#1503, #1518)
- new software specific easyblocks for BWISE (#1497) and VEP (#1512)
- minor enhancements, including:
- update QuantumESPRESSO easyblock:
stop building in installation dir, do not use external FoX dependency, support for recent versions (#1312)
- updates to TensorFlow easyblock:
- require cuDNN if CUDA support is enabled, enable mkl-dnn by default, fix problem with internal protobuf problem, add awareness for TensorRT & NCCL (#1453)
- add support for IntelMPI (#1507)
- update WIEN2k easyblock for version 18.1 (#1460)
- add CUDA 'stubs' subdirectory to $LIBRARY_PATH (#1464)
- add support for building ScaLAPACK on top of BLIS (#1467)
- handle X11 better and make 'static' a build flag in Amber easyblock (#1468)
- update Boost easyblock for Boost 1.67.0 (name change in Python 3.x library files) (#1472)
- add CEI/bin to $PATH for ANSYS 19 & newer (#1476)
- enhance SCons easyblock to enable building in parallel (#1477)
- add awareness for CCOLAMD and CAMD in Trilinos easyblock (#1480)
- add support to apply (binary) patches after main CUDA install (#1481, #1483)
- add support for only building Python bindings (+ code cleanup) in Boost easyblock (#1484, #1495)
- provide control over subdirectory in which R packages are installed (#1485)
- added regex to fix $WM_PROJECT_VERSION correctly in OpenFOAM easyblock (#1489)
- improve PGI siterc so it allows -pthread switch (#1494)
- customise check_checksums method in Bundle easyblock to fix checking of checksums for components (#1496)
- include a pkgconfig file `hdf5.pc` to HDF5 installations (#1504)
- (download &) use an updated `config.guess` script in generic ConfigureMake easyblock (#1506, #1522, #1523, #1524)
- make IntelBase generic easyblock aware of (pre)installopts (#1509)
- update Siesta easyblock for v3.2 to 4.1-b3 (#1510)
- take (pre)installopts into account in RPackage generic easyblock (#1513)
- update DOLFIN easyblock for latest version (2018.1) (#1521)
- various bug fixes, including:
- drop useless definition of $NLSPATH in IntelBase + fix ipp library paths (#1442)
- fix order of arguments in log message in PythonPackage easyblock (#1459)
- run ldconfig in post-install step of CUDA easyblock to create missing symlinks in 'stubs' subdirectory (#1473)
- take into account that only name/version may be specified for some components in Bundle easyblock (#1474)
- make SuperLU easyblock consider both lib and lib64 subdirectories (#1479)
- use short build dir for Trilinos to dance around "Argument list too long" problem + link with libmetis.a (#1486)
- correct check for Red Hat 6 based OS in TensorFlow easyblock (#1487)
- improve configuration choice in FSL easyblock (#1498)
- don't check for mcc in MATLAB sanity check as it requires a specific toolbox license (#1514)
- make sure Bazel doesn't write files in $HOME/.cache when building TensorFlow (#1519)
- enable VSX on POWER for FFTW >= 3.3.7 (#1520)
- add librt as dependency when linking Trilinos with SuiteSparse (#1525)
- other changes:
- switch to using CMake install procedure for Eigen 3.3.4 & newer (#1482)
- bump Lmod version used in Travis config to 6.6.3 (now required by framework) (#1505)
v3.6.2 (July 11th 2018)
-----------------------
bugfix/update release
- new software-specific easyblock for OpenCV (#1444)
- minor enhancements, including:
- use $CPATH/$LD_LIBRARY_PATH for CMake's find_path/find_library functions in CMakeMake easyblock (#1165)
- make cdft lib compilation optional for Intel MKL, by detecting MPI availability (#1393)
- add use_glibcxx11_abi easyconfig parameter in Boost easyblock (#1434)
- enable filtering of paths in $CPATH and $LIBRARY_PATH in TensorFlow easyblock (#1436)
- add support for building GROMACS with --optarch=GENERIC (#1440)
- check current stack limit and set it to 'unlimited' if possible in Python easyblock (#1441)
- trivial update for Q&A in SAS easyblock (#1448)
- allow skipping tests when installing Perl extensions, by setting 'runtest' to False (#1451)
- add support for installing Intel products using serial numbers (#1452)
- update version check to FFTW 3.3.8 for tests to pass on POWER (ppc64le) (#1454)
- various bug fixes, including:
- build MPFR in GCC stage 1 without LTO if (system) GCC used is too old (#1435)
- make sure xmlpatterns always gets built with Qt (#1437)
- fix symlink check in NWChem easyblock + use change_dir/remove_file/symlink functions (#1438)
- other changes:
- move flake8 configuration to setup.cfg and make HoundCI aware of it (#1430)
v3.6.1 (May 28th 2018)
----------------------
bugfix/update release
- minor enhancements, including:
- add support for detecting auto-downloaded dependencies in PythonPackage easyblock (#1377)
- disabled by default, can be enabled using "download_dep_fail = True" in easyconfig file
- add support to enable integration of pscom in psmpi easyblock (#1397)
- set $CMAKE_*_PATH when CMake is loaded in PythonPackage easyblock (#1398)
- update WIEN2k easyblock for v17 (#1405)
- disable jemalloc support in TensorFlow on CentOS 6 & co (+ minor cleanups) (#1412)
- update Maple easyblock to support recent versions (#1414)
- enable nc-config usage for netCDF in ESMF >=7.1 (#1419)
- enhance PETSc easyblock for version 3.9 (#1421)
- check output of MATLAB installation command for invalid installation key error (#1423)
- fix suffix for Boost Python library in Boost 1.67.0 & newer (#1424)
- support adding specific paths to $PATH for generic Binary easyblock via 'prepend_to_path' custom easyconfig parameter (#1426)
- minor changes, including:
- assume PGI Community edition is used when no license file is specified (#1427)
- various bug fixes, including:
- fix imkl sanity check overwriting base libs with interface libs. (#1392)
- install Chimera in a subdirectory to avoid its dependencies being added to the environment (#1413)
- add conditional so "--with-x" is only added to configopts if left unspecified in R easyblock (#1415)
- make configure and make look for FoX in $EBROOTFOX in QuantumESPRESSO easyblock (#1420)
- fix path for $ICEM_ACN in ANSYS easyblock (#1422)
- avoid hardcoding defaults in question patterns in Doris easyblock (#1428)
v3.6.0 (April 26th 2018)
------------------------
feature release
- new software-specific easyblock for Nim (#1402)
- minor enhancements, including:
- enhance RPackage easyblock to support installing from unpacked sources (#1383)
- add support to PythonPackage easyblock to install with 'pip install --editable' (#1384)
- add $EBROOTIFORT/include in $CPATH for ifort (#1385)
- add houndci + flake8 configuration (#1388)
- add additional location to $PATH for FLUENT installations (#1389)
- make PythonPackage generic easyblock aware of 'unpack_options' easyconfig parameter (#1391)
- minor updates to ABAQUS easyblock to support latest version (#1394)
- add support for extracting sources in Binary easyblock (#1401)
- various bug fixes, including:
- fix linking to FFTW for Doris: should be -lfftw3f (#1387)
- fix for installing TensorFlow 1.6.0: use the absolute path for the C compiler when compiling with GPU support (#1386)
- also take lib64 into account for binutils libraries (#1399)
- make sanity check in MPICH easyblock aware of libraries in lib64 subdir (#1403)
- take into account that self.debuggerpath may not be set in icc easyblock (#1408)
- extend noqa in configure step of Qt easyblock (#1409)
v3.5.3 (March 7th 2018)
-----------------------
bugfix/update release
- minor enhancements, including:
- make GROMACS easyblock select build type based on value for 'debug' in 'toolchainopts' (#1374)
- re-enable testing against environment modules, bump Lmod to 7.7.16 (#1376)
- enhance Gurobi easyblock to support installing Python bindings (#1378)
v3.5.2 (March 2nd 2018)
-----------------------
bugfix/update release
- new software-specific easyblocks for COMSOL (#1317), Stata (#1241) and TensorFlow (#1287, #1361)
- enhance GCC easyblock to support building generically (via 'generic' easyconfig parameter or --optarch=GENERIC) (#1336)
- minor enhancements, including:
- make GROMACS easyblock aware of building for KNL via --optarch=MIC-AVX512 (#1360)
- unset PERL_MM_OPT and PERL_MB_OPT when installing Perl modules to avoid problems (#1362)
- add custom 'use_pip_for_deps' easyconfig parameter to PythonPackage easyblock (#1366)
- add support for 'default_component_specs' easyconfig parameter in Bundle easyblock (#1369)
- various bug fixes, including:
- fix logic in icc easyblock w.r.t. location of debugger libraries (libipt library for gdb) (#1224)
- fix Tkinter easyblock to install Tkinter 3.x (#1347)
- let impi modules also update $MANPATH (#1354)
- enhance Octave extension filter to avoid false positives (#1355)
- make CUDA easyblock aware of 'preinstallopts' easyconfig parameter (#1367)
- fix handling of per-component (checksums for) patches in Bundle easyblock (#1369)
v3.5.1 (January 16th 2018)
--------------------------
bugfix/update release
- minor enhancements, including:
- auto-detect default build target for Clang (#1115)
- build GROMACS for target architecture based on --optarch (#1163)
- ensure correct $PYTHONPATH for recent OpenBabel versions (#1219)
- enhance Amber easyblock with support for OpenBLAS and better Intel MPI support (#1305)
- also support only installing AmberTools through Amber easyblock (#1305)
- also pick locations for CUPTI headers & libraries in CUDA easyblock (#1306)
- update patching out of sanitizer tests for recent Clang versions (>=5.0) (#1327)
- update known questions for Qt5 to support installing recent versions (#1328)
- update BamTools easyblock for v2.5.0 (#1332, #1337)
- disable libfox target if external module found in QuantumESPRESSO easyblock (#1333)
- add support for linking Octave with multi-threaded BLAS/LAPACK library (#1340)
- support install_target in PythonPackage + deprecate use_easy_install & use_setup_py_develop (#1341, #1342)
- various bug fixes, including:
- make RubyGem easyblock use $GEM_* environment variables except if as extension of Ruby itself (#1247)
- move initialisation in SystemCompiler & SystemMPI easyblocks to the prepare step (#1282)
- enable skipping sanitizer tests by default in Clang easyblock, they can't be relied on (#1329)
- fix quotes when using $ORIGIN in RPATH locations for DOLFIN (#1338)
- fix sanity check for shared libraries in Trilinos easyblock (#1339)
v3.5.0 (December 15th 2017)
---------------------------
feature release
- new software-specific easyblock for Bazel (#1286) and Octave (#1304)
- new generic easyblock for installing Octave packages as extensions (#1304, #1318)
- minor enhancements, including:
- remove foamExec & wdot from sanity checks, add blockMesh & checkMesh + enable logging for recent OpenFOAM versions (#1205, #1272)
- add exceptions for FFTW/3.3.6 on POWER with GCC 5/6/7 (#1274)
- add support for Spectrum MPI to the systemmpi easyblock (#1275)
- allow skipping of steps for Bundle components + fix issues with templates & formatting of error message (#1278)
- update HPCG easyblock for v3.0 by changing configure syntax (#1284)
- correctly configure for BLAS/LAPACK in R easyblock & check configure output (#1292, #1300)
- make R easyblock set configure options for dependencies (#1297, #1303)
- allow tuning of build command in PythonPackage via custom 'buildcmd' easyconfig parameter (#1299)
- set default Java encoding to utf8 when installing Trinity (#1302)
- also define $CUDA_ROOT in generated module for CUDA (#1234)
- make the ScaLAPACK easyblock capable of building in parallel (#1288, #1321, #1324)
- various bug fixes, including:
- avoid changing $CPATH, $LD_LIBRARY_PATH an $LIBRARY_PATH in generated modules for Intel Advisor, Inspector, and VTune (#1229)
- fix check for Intel MKL in PSI easyblock (#1273)
- fix missing space in fftw easyblock (#1277)
- fix use of FFTW on top of Intel MKL in CP2K easyblock (#1281)
- fix wrong sanity check for Boost when using Python 3.x (#1283)
- pick up per-component checksums in Bundle generic easyblock (#1285)
- correctly pass down optimization flags in CP2K easyblock (#1293)
v3.4.1 (October 17th 2017)
--------------------------
bugfix/update release
- add generic 'SystemMPI' easyblock (#1106, #1261, #1262)
- add software-specific easyblock for SAS (#1263)
- minor enhancements, including:
- run 'wcleanAll' or 'wcleanPlatform -all' before building OpenFOAM (#780, #1258)
- enhance generic 'SystemCompiler' easyblock (#1106)
- clean up --trace output for Python & Python packages (#1248)
- update Intel MPI easyblock to support 2018.* versions (#1253)
- add support for Intel MPI and Intel MKL to ScaLAPACK easyblock (#1255)
- enhance GCC easyblock to also put symlinks in place for cc/c++/f77/f95 commands (#1256)
- various bug fixes, including:
- allow that 'gcc -print-multiarch' fails in icc easyblock (#1249)
- fix prefix subdirectory for older versions of icc (in particular 2011.3.174) (#1250)
- use remove_file rather than os.remove in generic IntelBase easyblock to correctly deal with broken symlinks (#1251)
- fix sanity check for MXNet easyblock + correctly detect unpacked source directory (#1257)
- avoid building CP2K twice due to incorrect attempt at running 'make clean' first (#1266)
v3.4.0 (September 10th 2017)
----------------------------
feature release
- minor enhancements, including:
- update Siesta easyblock for versions 4.0.1 and 4.1-b3 (#1218)
- updates GAMESS-US easyblock for version 20170420R1 + move ddikick.x when ddi_comm is set to sockets (#1221)
- update MRtrix easyblock for 3.0 & beyond + use copy function (#1230)
- update ROOT easyblock to support recent versions that require using CMake, add sanity check, clean up/enhance make_module* (#1236)
- enhance icc easyblock to inlude multipath include dir in $CPATH (#1237, #1242)
- various bug fixes, including:
- use plumed-patch command rather than 'plumed patch' in GROMACS easyblock (#1212)
- remove 'provides' line from setup.py (#1217)
- fixed wrong use of build_type in self.cfg in WRF easyblock that resulted in an raised exception (#1220)
- added a call to super post_install_step in CUDA easyblock (#1226)
- fix $MCRROOT definition in generated module file under --module-only in MCR easyblock (#1228)
- fix permissions for directories in SuiteSparse (#1238)
- fix function signature for fetch_extension_sources in OCaml easyblock (#1240)
v3.3.1 (July 12th 2017)
-----------------------
bugfix/update release
- minor enhancements, including:
- enhance HDF5 easyblock: define $HDF5_DIR & include -DMPICH_IGNORE_CXX_SEEK in $CXXFLAGS (#1200)
- consistently pass down (named) arguments in prepare_step, and check for it in the tests (#1202)
- remove no longer supported VersionIndependentPythonPackage generic easyblock (#1202)
- update ABAQUS easyblock for recent versions, incl. support for installing hotfixes (#1203)
- get rid of references to 'hpcugent' organisation after move to github.com/easybuilders (#1206)
- make Boost easyblock fully aware of (pre)configopts, (pre)buildopts and (pre)installopts (#1207)
- drop check for 'ipython' in sanity check of Anaconda easyblock, to also support Miniconda (#1210)
v3.3.0 (June 26th 2017)
-----------------------
feature release
- added easyblocks for MXNet (#1135), Tkinter(#1184)
- minor enhancements, including:
- enhance sanity check for NCL (#1169, #1179)
- enable building of shared FFTW libraries (#1180)
- include update statements for $CPATH and $*LIBRARY_PATH in generated module in numpy easyblock (#1183)
- stop using deprecated 'copytree' function from easybuild.tools.filetools (#1185)
- update SAMtools easyblock for v0.1.17 (#1189)
- update MATLAB easyblock for 2016b & 2017a versions (adjust permissions and change dir) (#1182, #1197)
- consider $EB_*_LICENSE_SERVER(_PORT) in MATLAB and ANSYS easyblocks (#1195)
- add omp_num_threads custom parameter in CP2K easyblock to allow defining $OMP_NUM_THREADS during testing (#1196)
- various bug fixes, including:
- fix Siesta easyblock to enable and verify parallel build (#1186)
- fix bug in alias definition in impi easyblock for mpigxx, mpiicpc and mpiifort (#1192)
v3.2.1 (May 12th 2017)
----------------------
bugfix/update release
- added easyblock for Siesta (#1105)
- minor enhancements, including:
- enhance GROMACS easyblock to build with PLUMED support (#1121)
- enhance NAMD easyblock: add OpenMP support, update for recent NAMD versions (2.12), fix compatibility with Tcl versions other than 8.5 (#1173)
v3.2.0 (May 5th 2017)
---------------------
feature release
- added easyblocks for Doris (#1154, #1161), VMD (#1148) and WRF-Fire (#1153, #1159)
- minor enhancements, including:
- update IntelBase, PGI and TotalView easyblocks to allow list of license files/servers via 'license_file' easyconfig parameter (#1129)
- update Bowtie2 easyblock to set correct build options, copy more files, extend sanity check (#1146)
- added the option to build Boost with multi-threading support (#1147)
- allow libpng as OS dependency for WPS (#1150)
- extend Boost TIME_UTC patch to Boost versions <= 1.49.0 (#1152)
- enhance Python sanity check to check for Tkinter support if Tk is included as a dependency (#1156, #1158)
- add support to install Python extensions without unpacking (#1166)
- enhance TBB easyblock to also support building open source versions (#1168)
- various bug fixes, including:
- update FFTW easyblock: --enable-avx-128-fma depends on the fma4 CPU feature (AMD), not fma (#1142)
- fix problems when usempi not defined in toolchain in NAMD easyblock (#1162)
v3.1.2 (March 20th 2017)
------------------------
bugfix/update release
- add easyblock for QScintilla (#1127)
- minor enhancements, including:
- auto-disable quad precision on POWER and ARM in FFTW (#1102, #1138)
- allow "download install" for PETSc (#1114)
- modify Trinity sanity check for versions 2.3 and above (#1133)
- make unpacking Python extensions optional (#1134)
- update SAMtools easyblock for version 1.4 (#1139)
- various bug fixes, including:
- reduce number of environment variables in icc and ifort modules (#1126, #1143)
- also run tests with Tcl module syntax, Lua is the default in EasyBuild v3.x (#1128)
- rename member variable to avoid conflict with member of base class in PGI (#1137)
- don't set $FPATH environment variable in multiple easyblocks (#1140)
v3.1.1 (March 7th 2017)
-----------------------
bugfix/update release
- minor enhancements, including:
- change the sanity check for MCR 2016b since the directory structure has changed (#1096)
- update NWChem easyblock for version 6.6.x and to handle different versions of OpenMPI for older versions (#1104)
- allow per-component source_urls with templating in Bundle easyblock (#1108)
- add slib to $LD_LIBRARY_PATH for itac (#1112)
- consider both lib and lib64 in CGAL sanity check (#1113)
- add support for installing Intel tools that do not require license at installation time (#1117)
- required for Intel MPI and Intel MKL version 2017.2.174
- remove prefix_opt as custom easyconfig paramter for Qt easyblock (#1120)
- various bug fixes, including:
- use '-prefix <path>' rather than '--prefix=<path>' for configure in Qt (#1109)
- fix indentation problem in PETSc easyblock (#1111)
v3.1.0 (February 3rd 2017)
--------------------------
feature release
- new easyblock for FFTW (#1083)
- various enhancements, including:
- update sanity check for flex 2.6.3, no more libfl_pic.a library (#1077)
- cleanup build before proceeding with full Boost (#1080)
- update CP2K easyblock: copy data dir, support version 4.1, support ELPA, fix psmp build with foss toolchain (#996, #1020, #1043, #1084)
- add sanity check support for OpenSSL 1.1 (#1087)
- support the latest changes in Inspector 2017 (#1047)
- update NEURON easyblock to support the lack of hoc_ed in 7.4 (#987)
- add support for WPS 3.8 (#1079)
- also consider setuptools in EasyBuildMeta easyblock (#1093)
- various bug fixes, including:
- (correctly) define $ROSETTA3_DB in Rosetta easyblock (#1092)
v3.0.2 (December 22nd 2016)
---------------------------
bugfix release
- various enhancements, including:
- enhance DL_POLY_Classic easyblock to support building with Plumed support (REVIEW) (#829)
- make the Allinea easyblock search for the templates in the easyconfig paths (#1025)
- make FortranPythonPackage aware of (pre)buildopts (#1065)
- update sanity check for Mono to support recent versions (#1069)
- fix Eigen sanity check for latest version 3.3.1 (#1074)
- various bug fixes, including:
- skip RPATH sanity check for binary installations (#1056)
- pass CXXFLAGS and LDFLAGS to Boost bjam (#1064)
- make pip ignore already installed versions of the package being installed (#1066)
- don't pass empty string as custom installopts for numpy in test_step (#1067)
- make the Rosetta EasyBlock work in --module-only mode (#1073)
v3.0.1 (November 30th 2016)
---------------------------
bugfix release
- various enhancements, including:
- update SAMtools easyblock for recent versions (#1048)
- various bugfixes, including:
- fix QuantumESPRESSO easyblock to handle gipaw correctly (#1041)
- always specify name of serial Fortran compiler to ALADIN, it already knows to use MPI wrapper commands (#1050)
v3.0.0 (November 16th 2016)
---------------------------
feature release
- backwards incompatible changes:
- remove deprecated GenomeAnalysisTK/GATK easyblock (#1001)
- remove deprecated 'get_netcdf_module_set_cmds' function from netCDF easyblock (#1015)
- remove deprecated 'get_blas_lib' function from LAPACK easyblock (#1016)
- remove QLogicMPI easyblock (#1023)
- new easyblock for installing Anaconda (#950)
- add generic easyblock for Conda installations (#950)
- various enhancements, including:
- enable use of GCCcore as toolchain for Clang, fail if no GCC prefix is found (#1002)
- also build Boost MPI library in parallel (#1005, #1038)
- enhance g2clib easyblock to allow to install 1.6.0 or higher (#1006)
- update QuantumESPRESSO easyblock to support packaging changes in 6.0 (#1007)
- add support to Scons generic easyblock to provide argument to specify installation prefix (#1008)
- update IntelBase and imkl easyblocks to handle the 2017 versions of compilers/imkl (#1012)
- leverage toolchain.linalg functionality in ScaLAPACK easyblock, use copy_file (#1014)
- allow netCDF-C++4 to be used with ESMF (#1019)
- update Advisor easyblock to support latest versions (#1021)
- update CBLAS easyblock to build with foss toolchain (#1024)
- update Gurobi easyblock to use copy_file (#1028)
- add support for giving /lib preference over /lib64 & co in GCC installation (#1030, #1035)
- enable installation of libiberty by default for binutils (#1030)
- avoid CMake fiddling with the RPATHs injected by EasyBuild via --rpath in CMakeMake and METIS easyblocks (#1031, #1034)
- simplify scipy sanity check to make it more robust w.r.t. version updates (#1037)
- various bug fixes, including:
- make sure 'None' doesn't appear in modules generated with --module-only (#998)
- fix ATLAS easyblock for non-x86 systems (#1003)
- fix 'usempi' and 'with_mpi' usage to allow for a serial build of Amber 16 (#1013)
- add both lib/python2.7/site-packages/{,wx-3.0-gtk2} to $PYTHONPATH for wxPython (#1018)
- only hard inject RPATH for /usr/lib* directories when building binutils with dummy toolchain (#1026)
- make HDF5 easyblock handle --filter-deps correctly (#1027)
- update Travis config w.r.t. changes framework config defaults and required Lmod version (#1029)
- be more patient when running Mathematica Q&A installer (#1036)
v2.9.0 (September 23rd 2016)
----------------------------
feature release
- new easyblocks for 6 software packages that require customized support:
cppcheck (#983), HEALPix (#982), IMOD (#847), IronPython (#321), Mono (#321), MyMediaLite (#321)
- various enhancements, including:
- extend OpenFoam-Extend sanity check for decomp libaries (#784)
- enhance Java easyblock to support installing Java 6.x (#940)
- make QuantumESPRESSO easyblock aware of multithreaded FFT (#954)
- extend PSI easyblock to use PCMSolver and CheMPS2 (#967)
- make Boost easyblock add definition for $BOOST_ROOT to generated module file (#976)
- add support to Bundle easyblock to install list of components (#980)
- enhance & clean up libxml2 easyblock to also enable installing without Python bindings (#984)
- update Libint easyblock for Libint 2.1.x (#985)
- update sanity check for OpenFOAM to support OpenFOAM 4.x (#986)
- make easyblocks that run MPI tests aware of 'mpi_tests' build option (#993)
- various bug fixes, including:
- fix compatibility of OpenFOAM easyblock with --module-only (#784)
- fix testing of --module-only compatibility for OpenFOAM and IMOD easyblocks (#784)
- add 'include/libxml2' to $CPATH in libxml2 easyblock (#981)
- fix compatiblity of IntelBase generic easyblock with --module-only (#994)
- make sure correct config script is used for Tcl/Tk deps of R (#995)
v2.8.2 (July 13th 2016)
-----------------------
bugfix release
- new easyblocks for 5 software packages that require customized support:
Amber (#958), Extrae (#955), Gurobi (#962), Paraver (#956), Tau (#887)
- various enhancements, including:
- add support for building & installing old GROMACS versions (#569, #960)
- add support for building Boost with Cray toolchain (#849)
- libxsmm support for CP2K (#942)
- pick up specified components for imkl (#943)
- add support for building GROMACS with double precision (#946, #960)
- add support for building GROMACS with CUDA support and using dynamic libraries using Craytoolchains (#951, #960)
- also install vsc-install in EasyBuildMeta easyblock, if tarball is provided (#957)
- enhance PSI easyblock to support PSI4 1.0 (#965)
- various bug fixes, including:
- also install scripts with MRtrix 0.3.14 (#941)
- enhance Qt easyblock to support Qt3 (#944)
- create 'release' symlink in MRtrix install dir (#947)
- fix make_installdir in Inspector & VTune easyblocks (#952)
- make Binary and MakeCp easyblocks aware of 'keepsymlinks' (#959)
- correctly define $G4* environment variables in Geant4 easyblock (#961, #970)
- prepend tmp install path to $PYTHONPATH in numpy test step, move to build dir when removing 'numpy' subdir (#963)
- correct full path to ALADIN config file & patch it to use right Fortran compiler flags (#964)
- ensure correct compiler command/flags are used for SAMtools (#966)
v2.8.1 (May 30th 2016)
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- various enhancements, including:
- update MRtrix easyblock for version 0.3.14 (#932)
- update Inspector easyblock for recent versions (#934)
- update VTune easyblock for recent versions (#935)
- add debug message to IntelBase easyblock w.r.t. switching to 'exist_lic' (#936)
v2.8.0 (May 18th 2016)
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feature + bugfix release
- add test configuration for Travis (#895, #897, #900, #926)
- new easyblocks for 4 software packages that require customized support:
- binutils (#907), libQGLViewer (#890), SuperLU (#860), wxPython (#883)
- various other enhancements, including:
- update SuiteSparse easyblock for version >= 4.5 (#863)
- enhance imkl easyblock to install on top of PGI (#866, #916)
- enable runtime logging of install cmd in IntelBase (#874)
- enhance Qt easyblock to support installing with dummy toolchain (#881)
- delete libnuma symbolic links in PGI installation directory (#888)
- enhance PDT easyblock to support installing with dummy toolchain (#894)
- add support for building Clang with OpenMP support (#898)
- update Score-P easyblock for additional compilers, MPI libraries & dependencies (#889)
- drop deprecated 'testrb' from sanity check in Ruby easyblock (#901)
- enhance WRF easyblock to support versions >= 3.7 (#902)
- update QuantumESPRESSO easyblock for version 5.3.0 (#904)
- add support in PythonPackage easyblock to use 'setup.py develop' (#905)
- update Qt easyblock for Qt 5.6.0 (#908)
- extend bzip2 easyblock to also build dynamic libraries (#910)
- make threading an explicit option rather than relying on MPI library in SCOTCH easyblock (#914)
- update PGI easyblock to install siterc file so PGI picks up $LIBRARY_PATH (#919)
- enhance sanity check paths for compiler commands in PGI easyblock (#919)
- also filter out -ldl from $LIBBLAS & co for Intel MKL in numpy easyblock (#920)
- define $MIC_LD_LIBRARY_PATH for impi (#925)
- various bug fixes, including:
- don't hardcode Python version in test_make_module_pythonpackage (#876)
- make PythonPackage easyblock compatible with --module-only (#884, #906)
- remove check whether 'easybuild' is being imported from dir that contains easybuild/__init__.py (#891)
- fix passing compiler configure option in PDT easyblock (#894)
- fix bug in Score-P easyblock w.r.t. --with-libbfd (#889)
- fix extension filter for Ruby (#901)
- fix ACTIVATION_TYPES list in IntelBase + minor style change (#913)
- correctly define $MIC_LD_LIBRARY_PATH in imkl 11.3.x and newer (#915)
- fix broken link to VSC website in license headers (#927)
v2.7.0 (March 20th 2016)
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feature + bugfix release
- new easyblocks for 6 software packages that require customized support:
ADF (#826), MPICH (#844, #852, #868), mutil (#859), pplacer (#835), psmpi (#852), SNPhylo (#865)
- various other enhancements, including:
- implement support for 'use_pip' in PythonPackage easyblock (#719, #831)
- add support in CUDA easyblock to install wrappers for host compilers (#758)
- update sanity check for picard version 1.124 and above (#796)
- use 'module swap' for all components in CrayToolchain (#823)
- update PSI4 easyblock to cope with changed name of PSI4 data dir (#824)
- use find_flexlm_license function and avoid defining $CPATH in PGI easyblock (#837)
- use find_flexlm_license function in IntelBase generic easyblock (#839)
- add unit test to check module file generated by PythonPackage easyblock (#841)
- rework MVAPICH2 easyblock on top of new MPICH easyblock (#844)
- add CUDA support in CP2K easyblock (#850)
- also define $LD in buildopts for GATE (#855)
- use find_flexlm_license function in TotalView easyblock (#839)
- enhance MakeCp easyblock to also support renaming of files while copying them (#859)
- hunt for usable 'python' command in PythonPackage easyblock when system Python is used (#861)
- add sanity check in easybuild/__init__.py w.r.t. current working dir (#869)
- change suffix of original file to .easybuild when using fileinput in impi easyblock (#870)
- various bug fixes, including:
- make sure Python unicode settings match that of the system Python (#817)
- remove FFTW related statements in HPL easyblock, since HPL doesn't require FFTW at all (#822)
- use pkg_resources.declare_namespace rather than pkgutil.extend_path to declare 'easybuild' namespaces (#827)
- fix license headers: Hercules foundation is now FWO (#836)
- fix check for non-empty lib dirs in PythonPackage easyblock (#840)
- consider all Python lib dirs in sanity check for libxml2 (#842)
- correctly handle deprecated configure options (--with-hwloc/--enable-mpe) in MVAPICH2 easyblock (#853)
- use correct configure option for checkpoint/restart in MVAPICH2 easyblock (#854)
- ensure list of Python lib dirs always has a 'lib/...' entry (#858)
- check whether rpm/rpmrebuild commands are available using 'which', rather than checking for OS deps (#864)
- fix test_step in UFC easyblock (#872)
v2.6.0 (January 26th 2016)
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feature + bugfix release
- add generic easyblock for Cray toolchains (#766)
- new easyblocks for 2 software packages that require customized support:
EggLib (#811), PGI (#658)
- various other enhancements, including:
- update BamTools easyblock for versions 2.3.x and newer: some shared libraries are now static) (#785)
- don't hardcode .so, use get_shared_lib_ext instead (#789, #790, #791, #793, #794, #803, #815)
- enhance CPLEX easyblock by adding more subdirs to $PATH, define $LD_LIBRARY and $CPLEXDIR (#797)
- make sanity check for netcdf4-python work with both egg and non-egg installs (#799)
- update sanity check in PETSc/SLEPc easyblocks for v3.6.x (#800)
- update Trinity easyblock for 2.x versions (#802)
- update DOLFIN easyblock for v1.6.0 (#804)
- check for libkokkoscore.a rather than libkokkos.a for Trilinos 12.x (#805)
- add an option to skip the sanitizer tests of Clang (#806)
- update Molpro easyblock to support binary installs and 2015 version (#807)
- make ConfigureMake more robust w.r.t. custom easyconfig parameters (#810)
- various bug fixes, including:
- add back support for Eigen 2.x in Eigen easyblock (#798)
- fix for vsc-base being picked up from OS in EasyBuildMeta easyblock (#813)
- remove setuptools.pth if it includes absolute paths after installing EasyBuild (#813)
v2.5.0 (December 17th 2015)
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feature + bugfix release
- update easyblocks for Intel tools to support 2016 versions (#691, #745, #756, #777)
- IntelBase easyblock has been enhanced to support specifying which components to install
- new easyblocks for 3 software packages that require customized support:
Intel Advisor (#767), DIRAC (#778), MRtrix (#772)
- various other enhancements, including:
- update numpy and SuiteSparse easyblock to use scikit-umfpack (#718)
- add an option to allow removal of the -Dusethreads flag in Perl easyblock (#724)
- update Doxygen easyblock for 1.10.x (CMake) (#734)
- update sanity check in Qt easyblock for Qt 5.x (#740)
- add support for multilib build of GCC on PowerPC (#741)
- add support to OpenFOAM and SCOTCH easyblocks to support 64-bit integers, via 'i8' toolchain option (#744)
- fix sanity check to support numpy 1.10 (dropped _dotblas.so) (#757, #761, #762)
- update IPP easyblock for v9.x (#759)
- cleaner output for PythonPackage under dry run, make numpy easyblock dry-run aware (#760, #671)
- add support for using netCDF-Fortran as dependency in ALADIN easyblock (#764)
- add support for tbb 4.4.x in tbb easyblock (#769)
- add support for specifying altroot/altversion in Bundle easyblock (#773)
- update OpenFOAM easyblock for OpenFOAM-Extend 3.2 + use apply_regex_substitutions (#770)
- various bug fixes, including:
- fix module path extension of system compiler in HMNS setup (#742)
- only restore $PYTHONPATH if it was defined in EasyBuildMeta easyblock (#743)
- make sure $PYTHONPATH is defined correctly in module file for Python packages created with --module-only (#748)
- fix WRF easyblock to produce correct module under --module-only --force (#746, #752)
- don't hardcode 'openPBS' in GATE easyblock, use value for default_platform easyconfig parameter (#753)
- avoid adding lib subdirs to $*LIBRARY_PATH if no libraries are there in PythonPackage easyblock (#755)
- fix installing Python bindings for libxml2 to correct installation prefix (#765)
v2.4.0 (November 10th 2015)
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feature + bugfix release
- 3 new generic easyblocks: OCamlPackage (#467), SCons (#689, #700), Waf (#722)
- new easyblocks for 2 software packages that require customized support:
OCaml (#467), Samcef (#678)
- various other enhancements, including:
- add support for installing OpenFOAM with external METIS, CGAL and Paraview (#497)
- update netCDF easyblock updated for netCDF v4.3.3.1 (#674)
- update Rosetta easyblock for recent Rosetta versions (#677)
- make unpacked source dir detection in easyblock for VSC-tools a little bit more flexible (#679)
- add support for building with Plumed support enabled in CP2K easyblock (#681)
- update Go easyblock for Go v1.5 (#683)
- use apply_regex_substitutions function in WRF easyblock (#685)
- update MUMPS easyblock for 5.x (#686)
- implement runtime patching of $WM_* and compiler variables for OpenFOAM (#688)
- specify sequential compiler to use in compiler command that gets injected in OpenFOAM easyblock (#692)
- make PythonPackage and WRF easyblocks dry-run aware (#696)
- see also http://easybuild.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Extended_dry_run.html#guidelines-for-easyblocks
- add support in PythonPackage for installing with easy_install + installing zipped eggs (#698, #711, #715)
- update Bowtie easyblock for recent Bowtie versions (#707)
- update CUDA easyblock for CUDA 7.x(#708)
- also consider config/make.sys.in for want in QuantumESRESSO easyblock (#714)
- define $NWCHEM_LONG_PATH if needed in NWChem easyblock (#720)
- remove custom post-install step in PDT easyblock (#723)
- no longer needed now that adjust_permissions functions ignores symlinks
- use $LIBS in HPL easyblock (#727, #736)
- various bug fixes, including:
- also define $MCRROOT for MCR in module (#687)
- add missing super call in configure_step of easyblock for python-meep (#694)
- only prepend existing non-empty paths to $PYTHONPATH in PythonPackage easyblock (#697)
- fix extra_options definition in CMakePythonPackage easyblock (#698)
- fix dev version to follow PEP-440, as required by recent setuptools versions (#702, #703, #704)
- required to avoid that setuptools transforms the version itself
- see also https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0440/#developmental-releases
- consider both lib and lib64 in sanity check paths for flex (#705)
- also copy signature file and don't copy CMake files in Eigen easyblock (#709)
- fix directory names in make_module_req_guess of ANSYS easyblock (#713)
- fix imports for set_tmpdir in easyblock unit tests after function was moved in EasyBuild framework (#726)
- use --with-tcltk* configure options for Python to point to ensure Tcl/Tk deps are picked up (#729)
- fix order of subdirs for QuantumESPRESSO binaries (#730)
- correctly handle having both $FC(FLAGS) and $F90(FLAGS) defined when building MVAPICH2 (#732)
- fix OpenSSL sanity check paths: lib/engines is a directory (#731, #733)
- fix sanity check paths for netcdf-python (#735)
v2.3.0 (September 2nd 2015)
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feature + bugfix release
- new easyblocks for 2 software packages that require customized support: