Re: modulefiles for fis-gtm may be?
Hi Yaroslav,
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 11:39:54PM -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
> I have ran into Luis's recent blog post
> http://www.osehra.org/blog/backporting-fis-gtm-ubuntu-linux-distribution
>
> Environment Set Up
> Setting up the usual environment variables in the bash shell:
> export gtm_dist='/usr/lib/fis-gtm/V6.0-003-2~nd12.10_x86_64' # backported from NeuroDebian
> export gtmgbldir=$HOME/data/gtm/database
> export gtmroutines="$HOME/data/gtm/o($HOME/data/gtm/r) $gtm_dist/libgtmutil.so $gtm_dist"
>
>
> Now that Alastair has packaged environment-modules we could start using them I
> think, and then in your case it should then be just a matter of
>
> module load fis-gtm
>
> which would set all those environments.
Sounds good.
> They are usually used in HPC deployments to switch between custom builds
> of different versions of software etc. In our case we could unify all this
> environment madness as well I guess. I have once posted to our very low volume
> mailing list my brief analysis but haven't heard back/nor have done myself yet
> proper a 'modulefile'. (althgouh I think for ants package it will be the first
> to come whenever I find time to figure out what to do with its tests data).
>
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/neurodebian-devel/2013-December/000397.html
>
> your input is welcome (I believe you should be able to post without
> subscription), or we could continue discussion here ;)
>From just reading the mail above the advantages do sound convincing.
(The only drabback is that I have some allergy against TCL so I might
have some personal trouble with this in hayfever season but this might
be just me.)
Kind regards
Andreas.
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