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This file contains a description of the major changes to the easybuild-framework EasyBuild package.
For more detailed information, please see the git log.
These release notes can also be consulted at https://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Release_notes.html.
v4.2.1 (May 20th 2020)
----------------------
update/bugfix release
- various enhancements, including:
- also mention CPU architecture (x86_64, POWER) in comment for test reports (#3281)
- add support for enhancing existing sanity check in easyconfigs, as opposed to overwriting paths/commands (#3288)
- clean up locks when EasyBuild session is cancelled with a signal like SIGTERM (#3291, #3321)
- add 'find_glob_pattern' function to filetools module (#3297)
- add constants for common OS dependencies (OS_PKG_IBVERBS_DEV, OS_PKG_OPENSSL_DEV, ...) (#3309, #3334)
- flesh out get_mpi_cmd_template function from Mpi.mpi_cmd_for method (#3312)
- add variable 'moddependpaths' to specify extra $MODULEPATH entry to consider for loading dependency modules (#3324)
- allow copying of tweaked easyconfigs when using --try-* with --copy-ec (#3332)
- various bug fixes, including:
- make ModulesTool.exist more robust w.r.t. module wrappers, aliases, defaults, etc. (#3216, #3337)
- clean up rst output of --list-toolchains (#3246)
- cast CPU arch name provided by archspec to a regular string (#3286)
- get pr_title and pr_descr built_options in new_pr_from_branch instead of new_pr (and commit_msg in both) (#3298)
- make pypi_source_urls more robust by using HTMLParser rather than xml.etree.ElementTree (#3303, #3329)
- fix broken test for --include-easyblocks-from-pr (#3304)
- don't use distutils.dir_util in copy_dir (#3310)
- print trace message for sanity check command before running it (#3316)
- fix problems with processing of easyconfigs using a Cray* toolchain when there are no actual external modules (#3319)
- make test_find_eb_script more robust in case $EB_SCRIPT_PATH is already set (#3320)
- fix several small problems wit --try-update-deps (experimental feature) (#3325, #3326, #3330)
- add --disable-job in 'eb' command used in jobs, to prevent infinite job cycle (#3328)
- avoid empty entries in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH and other path-like environment variables (#3333)
- other changes:
- fix code style issues in easybuild.tools + add flake8 linting test (#3282)
- introduce contextmanager for disabling templating and reduce resolving errors (#3287)
- add 'change_into_dir' named argument to 'extract_file' + print deprecation warning if it's not specified (#3292)
- improve install_eb_dep.sh script to install EasyBuild dependencies in CI environment (#3314)
v4.2.0 (April 14th 2020)
------------------------
feature release
- add support for --try-update-deps (experimental feature), to upgrade dependencies based on available easyconfigs (#2599)
- adding locking to prevent two parallel builds of the same installation directory (#3009)
- for more information, see https://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Locks.html
- significantly speed up -D/--dry-run by avoiding useless 'module show' (#3203)
- add support for creating an index & using it when searching for easyconfigs (#3210)
- for more information, see https://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Easyconfigs_index.html
- additional GitHub integration features:
- add support for targeting easyblocks and framework repositories in --new-pr (#1876, #3189)
- add support for --include-easyblocks-from-pr (#3206)
- for more information, https://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Integration_with_GitHub.html
- various other enhancements, including:
- add a contrib/hooks dir with some examples of hooks used (#2777)
- also mention working directory + input passed via stdin (if any) in trace output of run_cmd (#3168)
- probe external modules for missing metadata that is not provided via extermal module metadata file (#3174)
- also update $CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH and $CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH in generated module file (#3176)
- optionally call log.warning in print_warning (#3195)
- add an option to git_config to retain the .git directory (#3197)
- allow use of SYSTEM as --try-toolchain option (#3213)
- mention CPU arch name in comment for uploaded test report, if it's known by archspec (#3227)
- make --merge-pr take into account --pr-target-branch (#3236)
- make --check-contrib print a warning when None is used for checksums (#3244)
- update install-EasyBuild-develop.sh script and create script for 2020a merge sprint (#3245)
- add template for mpi_cmd_prefix (#3264)
- update copy_dir to include option to merge directories (#3270)
- support template name for CUDA version (#3274)
- various bug fixes, including:
- use correct module for errors_found_in_log (#3119)
- fix EasyConfig.update code to handle both strings and lists as input (#3170)
- fix removing temporary branch on --check-github (#3182)
- fix shebang even if first line doesn't start with '#!' (#3183)
- make boostrap script work with Python 3 (#3186)
- read patch files as bytestring to avoid UnicodeDecodeError for patches that include funky characters (#3191)
- fix online check in --check-github: try repeatedly and with different URLs to cater for HTTP issues (#3194)
- don't crash when GitPython is not installed when using Python 3 (#3198)
- fix os_name_map for RHEL8 (#3201)
- don't add shebang to binary files (#3208)
- use checkout@v2 in GitHub Actions to fix broken re-triggered tests (#3219)
- don't filter out None values in to_checksums, leave them in place (#3225)
- fix defining of $MPI_INC_* and $MPI_LIB_* environment variables for impi version 2019 and later (#3229)
- use correct target account/repo when creating test report & posting comment in PR (#3234)
- reorganize EasyBlock.extensions_step to ensure correct filtering of extensions (#3235)
- also support %(installdir)s and %(builddir)s templates for extensions (#3237)
- unset $GITHUB_TOKEN in Travis after installing token, to avoid failing test_from_pr_token_log (#3252)
- fix reporting when skipping extensions (#3254)
- avoid API rate limit errors on online check in --check-github (#3257)
- show easyconfig filenames for parallel build (#3258)
- make EasyConfig.dump aware of toolchain hierarchy, to avoid hardcoded subtoolchains in dependencies easyconfig parameters (#3261)
- fix use of --copy-ec with a single argument, assume copy to current working directory (#3262)
- fix posting of comment in PR with --upload-test-report (#3272)
- take into account dependencies marked as external modules when composing template values like %(pyver)s (#3273)
- other changes:
- increase timeout & use api.github.com for connectivity check in check_github (#3192)
- restore flake8 default ignores (#3193)
- enable tracking of test suite coverage using coveralls (#3204)
- make tests use easybuilders/testrepository rather than hpcugent/testrepository after it was moved (#3238)
- improve raised error in remove_dir and deprecate rmtree2 (#3228)
v4.1.2 (March 16th 2020)
------------------------
bugfix release
- fix gitdb dependency on Python 2.6 in test configuration (#3212)
- fix broken test for --review-pr by using different PR to test with (#3226)
- censor authorization part of headers before logging ReST API request (#3248)
- see also https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-framework/security/advisories/GHSA-2wx6-wc87-rmjm
v4.1.1 (January 16th 2020)
--------------------------
update/bugfix release
- various enhancements, including:
- add check_log_for_errors function (in easybuild.tools.run) to detect and handle multiple errors (#3118)
- implement support for 'eb --show-ec' to show contents of specified easyconfig file (#3132)
- also update $XDG_DATA_DIR (share/) and $GI_TYPELIB_PATH environment variables (lib*/girepository-*) in generated module files (#3133)
- add support for --copy-ec to copy easyconfig file to specified location (#3142)
- mention --disable-* option in --help output for boolean options enabled by default (#3151)
- add --cuda-compute-capabilities configuration option (#3161)
- various bug fixes, including:
- ignore imports from vsc namespace made from pkgutil.py (#3120)
- only actually change permissions using os.chmod in adjust_permissions if the current permissions are not correct already (#3125)
- use shutil.copyfile to just copy file contents if target path exists and is owned by someone else (#3127)
- fix or avoid warnings that commonly arise in build log (#3129)
- disable buffering in asyncprocess.Popen using bufsize=0, to fix run_cmd_qa missing output (#3130)
- update pip & install wheel package in generated Singularity container recipes (#3136)
- avoid crash in modify_env & unset unset_env_vars when using (older versions) of Python 3.5 & 3.6 by using list(...) (#3140)
- take into account that lib64 could be a symlink to lib (or vice versa) in get_software_libdir function (#3141)
- only parse docstring if it exists in gen_easyblock_doc_section_rst function (#3144)
- only add useful entries for $CPATH, $(LD_)LIBRARY_PATH and $PATH (non-empty directories) (#3145, #3152)
- fix --list-software=detailed when using Python 3 by leveraging sort_looseversions function from py2vs3 module (#3146)
- ensure subdirectories in software install directory have correct search (exec) permission (#3147)
- take into account that a checksum value may be a tuple of valid checksum in EasyBlock.check_checksums (#3153)
- other changes:
- bump to Lmod 8.2.9 in GitHub CI config (#3115)
- update copyright statements for 2020 (#3149)
- make Hound CI code style checker ignore "Black would make changes" produced by flake8-black (#3162)
v4.1.0 (December 4th 2019)
--------------------------
update/bugfix release
- various enhancements, including:
- performance improvements:
- skip validation when copying EasyConfig object for extension (#3071)
- correctly specify that ActiveMNS & co are singleton classes when using Python 3 (#3073)
- don't call out to prohibitively expensive getRootLoggerName in getLogger, just use 'root' instead (#3074)
- fix inconsistent module path usage that leads to repeated reloading in HMNS (#3099)
- add support for specifying different dependency version based on processor architecture (#3047)
- support use of glob patterns for paths to files with external modules metadata (#3075)
- take into account that external modules may not be visible directly (due to module hierarchy) (#3083)
- add support for including 'extensions' statement in Lua modules with Lmod 8.2.8+ (#3085, #3107, #3110)
- add support for --sync-pr-with-develop (#3087)
- add support for --new-branch-github, --new-pr-from-branch, --sync-branch-with-develop, --update-branch-github (#3103)
- fix typo in docstring for new_branch_github (#3106)
- various bug fixes, including:
- correctly handle iccifortcuda toolchain with standalone iccifort in det_toolchain_compilers (#3055)
- init git repo with git.repo.clone() instead of copy_dir() (#3062)
- fix regular expression so depends-on statements are recognized correctly in Tcl module files (#3065)
- update GitPython to latest version that supports Python 2.6 in requirements.txt to fix broken test_new_update_pr (#3066)
- imply --disable-pre-create-installdir with --inject-checksums (#3069)
- handle patches in extensions more like normal patches (#3067)
- take into account that platform.linux_distribution and platform.dist was removed in Python 3.8 (#3078)
- always include mandatory easyconfig parameters in dumped easyconfig (#3081)
- hide backup module file when using Lmod 6.x (fixes #9302) (#3089)
- add better error message when mandatory key is missing from a dictionary easyconfig parameter (#3092)
- also create symlinks for default modules in class module folders (#3093)
- fix semantics of --set-default-module: only set default for specified easyconfigs, not for the ones that are installed as dependencies via --robot (#3094)
- fix various issues in extracting comments from original easyconfig file and including them again in dumped easyconfig (#3095)
- don't use %(version)s template in exts_default_options in dumped easyconfig (#3096)
- fix generated module statements in case only a single version is listed in multi_deps (#3097)
- fix broken test_show_system_info on macOS due to 'Python' binary (#3105)
- take into account that dependency version could be a dict rather than a string value in template_constant_dict (#3111)
- other changes:
- deprecate running EasyBuild with Python 2.6 via new check_python_version() function (#3076)
- deprecate support for using Lmod 6.x (#3077)
- trim set of test configurations in Travis CI (#3086)
- flesh out env_vars_external_module from Toolchain._simulated_load_dependency_module (#3088)
v4.0.1 (October 15th 2019)
--------------------------
update/bugfix release
- various enhancements, including:
- add 'parallel' to list of config templates (#3036)
- add GitHub Actions workflow to run easybuild-framework test suite (#3039)
- add 'retest' as a reason to --close-pr, to close/re-open PRs to trigger re-test in Travis (#3040)
- define $EB_SCRIPT_PATH in 'eb' wrapper script, and consider it before location of 'eb' determined via $PATH in get_paths_for function (#3046)
- add support for --remove-ghost-install-dirs configuration option, and warn about (potential) ghost install dirs by default when --force/--rebuild is used (#3050)
- various bug fixes, including:
- update bootstrap script to support installing EasyBuild v4.0 (#3017)
- fix broken test_download_repo due to archiving of easyconfigs (#3019, #3023)
- avoid that --inject-checksums introduces list of patches for extensions as a single long line (#3025, #3034)
- enhance regex in fix_shebang method to fix more Python/Perl shebangs + avoid patching binary files (#3029)
- delete test gist that is created by --check-github (#3031)
- disable templates when defining easyconfig parameters in EasyConfig.set_keys() (#3037)
- avoid setting GC3Pie's max_in_flight to None if --job-max-jobs is not specified (#3038)
- fix use of obtain_file method for extensions (#3042)
- error out if some GC3Pie job failed (#3044)
v4.0.0 (September 20th 2019)
----------------------------
feature release (incl. backwards-incompatible changes)
A concise overview of major changes in EasyBuild v4.0 is available at https://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/EasyBuild4-overview-of-changes.html .
- fixed compatibility with Python 3.5+ (#2708, #2713, #2714, #2719, #2721, #2723, #2729, #2743, #2744, #2751, #2756, #2759, #2761, #2762, #2765, #2766, #2767, #2768, #2774, #2775, #2778, #2780, #2785, #2787, #2789, #2791, #2792, #2794, #2800, #2801, #2805, #2806, #2895, #2932, #2982, #2992, #3007, #3011)
- supported Python versions: 2.6, 2.7, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7
- some functionality from the Python standard library should be imported from the new easybuild.tools.py2vs3 package
- see https://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Python-2-3-compatibility.html & https://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/EasyBuild4-overview-relocated-functions-constants.html for more information
- ingested relevant code from vsc-base & vsc-install (#2708, #2713, #2714, #2763, #2790, #2993)
- vsc-base & vsc-install are no longer required as dependencies
- the functionality that was provided by these packages is now (mostly) available from the easybuild.base package
- any import statements from the 'vsc' namespace will result in an error
- see also https://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/EasyBuild4-overview-of-changes.html#ingested-functionality-from-vsc-base-and-vsc-install and https://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/EasyBuild4-overview-relocated-functions-constants.html
- setuptools is longer required (neither for installing or using EasyBuild) (#2836, #2837, #2984, #2986, #2988)
- see also https://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/EasyBuild4-overview-of-changes.html#no-more-required-python-packages
- this required moving some classes and constants, see https://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/EasyBuild4-overview-relocated-functions-constants.html
- the 'dummy' toolchain is deprecated and replaced by the 'system' toolchain (#2877, #3001)
- if 'dummy' is still used as a toolchain in easyconfig files, a warning will be printed
- use "toolchain = SYSTEM" instead
- for more information, see https://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/System_toolchain.html
- a warning is printed when local variables in easyconfig file don't follow the recommended naming scheme (#2938, #2968)
- see also https://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Easyconfig-files-local-variables.html
- names of software installation directories are independent of module naming scheme by enabling --fixed-installdir-naming-scheme by default (#2999)
- see https://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/EasyBuild4-overview-of-changes.html#fixed-installdir-naming-scheme-enabled-by-default for more information
- various other small enhancements, including:
- use requests instead of urllib2 for 403 errors (#2695)
- use pip requirements file in Travis (#2874)
- add support for --fix-deprecated-easyconfigs (#2881, 2898, #2938)
- add -L$EBROOTIMKL/lib/intel64 to $LDFLAGS for MKL (#2930)
- handle dict-type checksums in check_checksums_for (#2974)
- allow that icc & ifort are not actual dependencies in iccifort toolchain module (#2995)
- define mapping for iccifort->intel for iccifort compiler-only toolchain for HMNS (#2996)
- also consider concatenation of compiler module names to determine details of toolchain compiler component (#2997)
- update metadata for Cray-provided external modules (#3013)
- various bug fixes, including:
- update the PyPI trove classifiers in setup.py (#2875)
- reverse lists for $LDFLAGS and $CPPFLAGS (#2931)
- enhance/fix to_template_str function to do a better job at using template values in dumped easyconfigs (#2948)
- also take into account --filter-deps when finalizing parsed dependencies to fix problem with dependency filters using version ranges (#2983)
- fix broken --from-pr tests due to archiving of easyconfigs (#2985)
- fixes required to avoid breaking Cray support (#3008)
- fixes for --read-only-installdir: avoid crash with ModuleRC easyblock + also make log file in installdir read-only (#3012)
- other changes:
- add check to ensure that --robot argument specifies an existing directory (#2086)
- remove old scripts that are no longer useful (+ minor fixes to others) (#2897)
- use 'command -v' to avoid requiring 'which' in 'eb' command (#2979)
- add modluafooter & modtclfooter at the end of the generated module file (#3003)
- print warning when 'eb' command is not found in $PATH and for empty robot search path (#3006)
v3.9.4 (August 23rd 2019)
-------------------------
update/bugfix release
- various enhancements, including:
- add support for specifying checksum via dict providing a filename-to-checksum mapping (#2946)
- enhance 'completed' message with how much time was needed for the installation (#2956)
- add support for specifying tuple of alternative checksums (#2958)
- support using 'system' as alias for 'dummy' toolchain + SYSTEM constant (#2960)
- ensure 'docurls' easyconfig parameter value is a list of string values, not a single string value (#2963)
- automatically enable --ignore-osdeps when using --check-contrib or --check-style (#2965)
- various bug fixes, including:
- escape '+' in search queries + handle invalid search queries better (#2967)
- also consider extension patches when determining for which easyconfig a given patch file is intended in --new-pr/--update-pr (#2969)
- unset $CDPATH early on if it is defined (#2970)
- create specified temporary log directory if it doesn't exist yet in init_logging (#2972)
- don't indicate first multi_deps version as default in module help text when multi_deps_load_default=False (#2973)
- other changes:
- deprecate toolchains older than gompi/2016a and foss/2016a (#2951)
v3.9.3 (July 8th 2019)
----------------------
update/bugfix release
- various enhancements, including:
- add a URL whatis line to generated module files (#2933)
- various bug fixes, including:
- stick to Ubuntu Trusty when testing with Python 2.6 in Travis (#2928)
- honor --tmp-logdir when determining location of temporary log file (#2937)
v3.9.2 (June 9th 2019)
----------------------
update/bugfix release
- various enhancements, including:
- enhance (experimental) support for generating Singularity container recipes/images (#2884, #2900, #2902, #2903, #2907, #2909, #2910, #2913, #2915)
- add support for specifying container configuration via --container-config (--container-base option has been removed)
- add support for providing custom template for container recipe via --container-template-recipe
- add support for 'sif' Singularity 3.x container image format
- add support for specifying non-image based Singularity bootstrap agents
- install default set of OS packages in container recipes starting from scratch
- configure Lmod and update Lmod spider cache in generated Singularity container recipes
- configure EasyBuild via environment variables (to allow overriding configuration settings via options to 'eb' command)
- also consider /tmp/easybuild/sources in source path (to allow seeding in sources in container build environment)
- updated documentation is available at https://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Containers.html
- various bug fixes, including:
- make sure that easyconfig file for EasyBuild version being bootstrapped is found in robot search path (#2899)
- remove interpreter options when fixing script shebang (#2905, #2906)
- fix crash on iterated installation when using Cray toolchains (#2914)
- disable checking of read/exec permissions when checking for availability of 'sudo' command (#2918)
- other changes:
- stick to vsc-base<2.9.0 in bootstrap script to avoid requiring 'future' dependency (#2892)
v3.9.1 (May 20th 2019)
----------------------
update/bugfix release
- various enhancements, including:
- add function to determine whether specified easyblock is generic or not (#2838)
- add support to apply_regex_substitutions function to skip creation of backup (#2844)
- add support for %(pymajver)s (& co) (#2850)
- add support for 'fix_python_shebang_for' and 'fix_perl_shebang_for' easyconfig parameters (#2878)
- add multi_deps information to generated module, help and whatis sections (#2882)
- add support for 'eb --missing' ('eb -M') (#2883)
- see also https://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Using_the_EasyBuild_command_line.html#getting-an-overview-of-missing-installations-missing-m
- various bug fixes, including:
- only call 'scontrol release' when there's at least one job submitted (#2834)
- fix small bug in find_eb_script + various minor issues with tests (related to environment in which tests are run) (#2835)
- list build dependencies *before* runtime dependencies, so dependencies listed via multi_deps are loaded first in toolchain environment (#2839)
- allow setting parallel to 0 or False to disable adding the -j argument (#2842)
- be more careful when using single quotes for Tcl syntax (#2847)
- append to existing .modulerc file rather than overwriting it (if --force is used) (#2848)
- correctly resolve template values used for extensions (#2852)
- update template values after updating iterative easyconfig parameters (#2854)
- add top-level directories of hierarchical module naming scheme to $MODULEPATH before loading dependencies (#2857)
- inject dependencies specified via multi_deps before normal build dependencies (#2861)
- include Python version(s) in PR titles auto-generated by --new-pr (#2863, #2880)
- update HierarchicalMNS for GCCcore toolchain (#2870)
- bump iteration index counter at the correct time (#2886)
- don't specify --ntasks-per-node when submitting Slurm jobs (#2887)
- fix order of easyconfig parameters in output generated by 'eb --avail-easyconfig-params --output-format rst' (#2888)
- other changes:
- lower required version in Slurm job backend to 16.05 (#2833)
- add Lmod 8 to test suite (#2849)
- deprecate useless 'skip_lower' named argument in template_constant_dict, always define *lower templates (#2856)
- fix Python classifiers in setup.py, should be (only) Python 2.6 & 2.7 (#2876)
v3.9.0 (April 12th 2019)
------------------------
feature release
- various enhancements, including:
- add (pre)testopts easyconfig parameters (#2793)
- add support for multi_deps easyconfig parameter (#2741, #2810, #2811, #2812, #2813, #2825, #2826, #2827, #2828)
- various bug fixes, including:
- fix argument name in close_pr (#2752)
- fix undefined variable 'prefix' in Compiler._set_compiler_vars (#2757)
- fix test account for GitHub-related tests (#2760)
- make sure read permissions are always set in permissions_step (#2770)
- make test for dep_graph function robust against changing order of lines in resulting dot file (#2772)
- fix problem with import_available_modules when running from easybuild-framework directory (#2786)
- prepend location of test easyblocks to $PYTHONPATH to test_generate_software_list, rather than append (#2788)
- use pid in backup name candidate to reduce risk of two processes colliding (#2796)
- automatically enable --ignore-osdeps when using --preview-pr (#2799)
- use temporary checkout of repository as robot path for --new-pr and --update-pr to determine locations for patch files (#2803)
- avoid relying on order in which keys are processed in to_dependency (#2804)
- fix yeb format to work with PyYAML 5 (#2809)
- fix typo in error message for use of unknown easyconfig parameter (#2817)
- enhance log_file_format to fix problem when %(name)s template value is used for log directory (#2818)
- iterate over subdirectories in order in find_egg_dir_for of bootstrap script, to ensure oldest vsc-install is picked (#2819)
- replace -Wl,--enable-new-dtags compiler option with -Wl,--disable-new-dtags in RPATH wrapper script (#2821)
- updated COMPILER_F77 for PGI >= 19.1 (#2823)
- added FFTW_STATIC_LIBS_MT to FFTW_MAP_CLASS, otherwise FFTW_STATIC_LIBS_MT are incorrectly defined (#2822)
- sort available version list when selecting/generating easyconfig (#2732)
- other changes:
- use assertEqual rather than assertEquals (which is deprecated) (#2746)
- test with Tmod 4.1.4 (packaged in RHEL8) in Travis CI (#2747)
- replace deps by hidden deps instead of removing them from the lists (#2748)
- ensure non-zero exit code for all test subsuites (+ fix trivial style issues) (#2773)
- silence printed deprecation warnings for easyconfigs/toolchains while running (easyconfigs) test suite (#2781)
- avoid printing of messages/warnings in framework test suite (#2782)
- enable silent mode for --new-pr and --update-pr (#2802)
- update Travis config to reflect that PyYAML 5.x is no longer compatible with Python 2.6 (#2807)
v3.8.1 (January 29th 2019)
--------------------------
bugfix release
- various minor enhancements, including:
- speed up checking of OS dependencies (#2703)
- add support for 'eb --show-system-info' (#2722)
- add support for '%(arch)s' template value in easyconfig files (x86-64, aarch64, ppc64le, ...) (#2728)
- various bug fixes, including:
- add timestamp to reprod dir while in tmp space (#2705)
- avoid '+' in directory name for g++ rpath wrapper (#2710)
- pre-install vsc-install < 0.11.4 in bootstrap script to avoid requiring 'mock' Python package (#2717)
- fix check in --merge-pr whether PR is eligible for merging in to only consider the status of the last test report (#2720)
- don't recreate build directory when 'buildininstalldir' is enabled for iterative installations (#2724)
- filter (CUDA) lib*/stubs paths in RPATH wrapper script (#2725)
- other changes:
- replace 'except IOError, err:' pattern with 'except IOError as err:' for compatibility with Python 3.x (#2711)
- make all print statements compatible with Python 3 (#2715)
- avoid use of sys.maxint in dependencies_for (#2716)
v3.8.0 (December 18th 2018)
---------------------------
feature release
- various enhancements, including:
- support use of version ranges in --filter-deps (#2357)
- add support for --list-prs (#2400, #2668)
- add support for --close-pr (#2401)
- allow setting optarch compiler flags in the easyconfig via toolchainopts easyconfig parameter (#2595)
- add option to skip pre-creation of install directory: --disable-pre-create-installdir (#2629, #2637)
- flesh out setting up of configuration into dedicated 'set_up_configuration' function (#2638)
- clean error when 'eb' is cancelled by user (#2641)
- add support for using Slurm as backend for --job, via --job-backend=Slurm (#2642, #2666)
- save easyblocks along with easyconfig in 'reprod' subdirectory of install directory (#2653)
- add support for deprecating easyconfig files & toolchains (#2656)
- changed easyconfig.update to be able to specify not to allow duplicate values (#2657)
- move adding of dependencies to prepare step instead of check readiness step (#2674)
- add support for disabling mapping of (sub)toolchains when --try-toolchain is used, via --disable-map-toolchains (#2682)
- add 'astro' and 'quantum' module classes (#2693)
- various bug fixes, including:
- make --from-pr always try to apply PR patch on top of PR target branch (#2631)
- fix bug that could cause to silently overwrite an existing easyconfig when using --try-* (#2635)
- don't pass down specific environment variables into submitted jobs (#2643)
- update template constants for source URLs to use https (#2648)
- fix lib64 fallback for 'lib'/'lib64' dirs entry in sanity_check_paths (#2649)
- change PGI F90 Fortran compiler to pgf90 (#2650)
- use --set-upstream-to in install-EasyBuild-develop.sh script to deal with deprecated/no longer supported --set-upstream (#2651)
- fix order of keys in 'toolchain' value for dumped easyconfig file (name, version) + run style check on dumped easyconfigs in dump tests (#2660)
- ensure checksums beside sources in dumped easyconfigs (#2661)
- fix problems with easyconfig file saved in 'reprod' directory by copying it before running any installation steps (#2664)
- make print functions more robust w.r.t. arguments being passed to format the message to be printed (#2670)
- use 'git am' to apply patch for PRs in fetch_easyconfigs_from_pr (#2680)
- correctly define $LIBFFT_MT for Intel MKL (#2688)
- don't always require easyconfig files to resolve dependencies (#2690, #2692, #2697, #2698, #2699)
- fixes for Travis CI config:
- stop testing with Lmod 6.6.3, testing with Lmod 6.5.1 is sufficient (#2627)
- Python 2.6 requires python-daemon 1.x as dep for GC3Pie (#2673)
- stick to idna<2.8 with Python 2.6 in Travis + distable broken test for HgRepository (#2678)
- other changes:
- always skip symlinks in adjust_permissions (#2644)
- flesh out 'avail_easyblocks' function from support for --list-easyblocks (#2663)
- deprecate the ictce toolchain (#2667)
- deprecate goolf and goolfc toolchains (#2676)
- deprecate intel toolchains older than intel/2016a (+ iccifort & iimpi subtoolchains) (#2677)
- deprecate ancient gompi toolchain versions (#2684)
- use 'tar xzf' (gzip) rather than 'tar xZf' (ancient compress) to unpack *.tar.Z source files (#2686)
- flesh out 'set_parallel' method to it can be called separately (#2687)
v3.7.1 (October 18th 2018)
--------------------------
bugfix release
- various enhancements, including:
- generate .modulerc.lua when Lua syntax and Lmod >= 7.8 is used (#2597)
- allow --force to use regex if --try-toolchain can not map intelligently (#2605)
- add support for disabling modules tool version check (#2610)
- add support to ModuleGenerator.modulerc method to also write .modulerc file (#2611)
- check whether module file being wrapped exists in same directory as module wrapper when using Lmod 6.x (#2611)
- various bug fixes, including:
- stop relying on 'easy_install' in bootstrap script, use 'python -m easy_install' instead (#2590)
- fix templating of values in list_software function (#2591)
- fix composing of lib64 fallback paths in sanity check (#2602)
- determine file_info for all easyconfigs before any actual copying in copy_easyconfigs function (#2604)
- also check for module wrappers in 'ModulesTool.exist' method (#2606)
- add trailing newline to module load message if it's not there yet (#2613)
- retain all dependencies when determining dependency tree of a toolchain (#2617)
- protect exts_lists from templating in dump method (#2619)
- making CUDA capability detection more robust (#2621)
- other changes:
- lower required Lmod version to 6.5.1 (#2593)
v3.7.0 (September 25th 2018)
----------------------------
feature release
- minimal Lmod version requirement bumped to 6.6.3 (#2575)
- various enhancements, including:
- add support to bootstrap script to force install specific EasyBuild version (#2382, #2580)
- consider potential of multiple subtoolchains when resolving dependencies (#2464, #2465, #2466, #2585)
- fall back to downloading using the requests Python package (if installed) when urllib2 fails due to SSL error (#2538)
- make --try-toolchain more aware of subtoolchains (#2539)
- subtoolchain of original toolchains are now mapped to subtoolchains of target toolchain
- add support for BLIS and goblf toolchain that uses BLIS for BLAS (#2540)
- allow skipping of sanity check step via 'skipsteps' easyconfig parameter (#2549)
- add support for --check-contrib (#2551)
- equivalent with --check-style, but also verifies presence of SHA256 checksums (+ more checks in the future)
- added support to 'download' sources from git (#2555)
- see https://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Writing_easyconfig_files.html#downloading-from-a-git-repository
- add 'parse' hook to add support for applying site-specific customisations to the 'raw' easyconfig (#2562, #2566)
- see https://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/develop/Hooks.html
- lift invalidating of module caches into helper method that can be used by easyblocks (#2571)
- always dump a fully parsed easyconfig to the 'reprod' subdir of the installation directory (#2574)
- add 'modulerc' method to ModuleGenerator class (#2575)
- various bug fixes, including:
- make GC3Pie stop build process if a dependency failed (#2474)
- filter out patched files in test/ in fetch_easyconfigs_from_pr (#2547)
- check GC3pie version using the `pkg_resources` API rather than using __version__ (which was removed in GC3Pie 2.5.0) (#2554)
- fix enforcing of checksums for extensions (#2561, #2570, #2579)
- skip running of configuration checks while only a single configuration level is taken into account during --show-config (#2567)
- fix error statements in modules tool version checks (#2576)
- fix finding of software subdirectory for specified patch file in --new-pr/--update-pr (#2577)
- take into account dependency 'wrappers' in check_conflicts (#2583)
- stick to pycparser < 2.19 with Python 2.6 in Travis config (#2584)
- other changes:
- use namelower as default for 'github_account' easyconfig parameter (#2528)
- use .counts() rather than deprecated .stats() for GC3Pie (#2573)
v3.6.2 (July 11th 2018)
-----------------------
bugfix release
- various enhancements, including:
- add support for including environment variable that is resolved at "module load time" in user module path (#2395)
- {RUNTIME_ENV::EXAMPLE} is replaced by value of $EXAMPLE when module is loaded
- also support generating Docker container recipes & image via --containerize (still experimental) (#2479)
- add support for specifying source URLs directly in 'sources' (#2520)
- perform early 'raw' parse of provided easyconfig file to check for syntax error or faulty inputs (#2523)
- add 'bitbucket_account' easyconfig parameter and template, and let BITBUCKET* templates use it (#2525)
- various bug fixes, including:
- take into account --filter-deps when re-loading build dependencies in extensions_step (#2516)
- fix for offline use of bootstrap script: ignore errors when determining source URLs if source tarballs are provided (#2517)
- fix error message that is raised for incorrect type of value in sanity_check_paths (#2524)
- other changes:
- move flake8 config into setup.cfg + fix style issues in easybuild/tools/options.py (#2511)
- make test that verifies that BuildOptions does not support updating a bit more flexible (#2518)
v3.6.1 (May 28th 2018)
----------------------
bugfix release
- various enhancements, including:
- add support for enabling fallback in sanity check to consider lib64 equivalent for seemingly missing libraries (#2477)
- add GITHUB_LOWER_SOURCE constant (#2491)
- add 'exts_download_dep_fail' as known easyconfig parameter (#2493)
- add support for passing custom messages on failing sanity check for extensions (#2494)
- add definition for fosscuda toolchain (#2507)
- various bug fixes, including:
- make --inject-checksums always re-order source_urls/sources/patches/checksums (#2487)
- fix git remote url in CONTRIBUTING.md (#2490)
- make flake8 happy in easyblock.py (#2492)
- handle missing permissions for adding labels in --new-pr (#2497)
- restore tweaked $TMPDIR value after loading module (for sanity check) (#2498)
- enhance get_module_path function to auto-detect generic vs software-specific easyblock class names (#2502)
- don't blindly overwrite an existing easyconfig in tweak_one (#2504)
- take account that PlaintextKeyring may be provided via keyrings.alt (#2505)
- prepend location for temporary module file to $MODULEPATH with high priority + mark it as default in load_fake_module method (#2506)
v3.6.0 (April 26th 2018)
------------------------
feature release
- (experimental) support for generating Singularity container recipes & (optionally) images via 'sudo singularity' (#2332, #2480, #2481, #2482, #2483)
- see documentation at http://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Containers.html
- include -ftree-vectorize and -fno-math-errno in default compiler optimisation flags for GCC (#2388)
- this significantly improves performance of generated binaries when building with a GCC-based toolchain
- can be disabled if needed via the 'vectorize' toolchain option
- several enhancements/fixes to GitHub integration support:
- loosen commit message requirements for --new-pr w.r.t. to patches as long as all easyconfigs are new (#2438)
- automatically add 'new' and/or 'update' labels in --new-pr (#2384)
- add force_in_dry_run=True to copy_file in copy_patch_files (#2442)
- test for custom commit message when deleting a file instead of when adding a patch (#2443)
- make diff_stat pattern also match output of older git versions in tests for --new/update-pr (#2444)
- remove duplicates from --new-pr title (#2478)
- add support for "eb --fetch" to only download sources (even without having a modules tool installed) (#2457)
- add definitions for a bunch of new toolchains:
- golf (#2458), gmkl (#2460), gomkl (#2455), pmkl (#2460)
- toolchains including CUDA: gmklc, gomklc, iimklc, iompic, iomklc (#2461)
- various minor enhancements, including:
- avoid that '--inject-checksums' adds lines longer than 120 characters (#2434)
- enable caching of $HOME/.cache/pip in Travis config (#2435)
- replace raw strings with bytes literal as iterator sentinels in checksum calculation (#2446)
- new command-line option '--job-max-jobs' to cap nr of submitted build jobs with GC3Pie (#2378)
- add configuration for houndci + flake8 (#2451)
- add Accept header when downloading file (#2437)
- include running of 'eb --check-github' in Travis config (#2449, #2454)
- flesh out common code blocks in test/framework/options.py (#2452)
- support 'depends_on' load statements in generated modules via --module-depends-on and module_depends_on easyconfig parameter (#2391)
- fix compatibility with Modules v4.1.x (#2470)
- add support to run_cmd to enable streaming output (#2476)
- various bug fixes, including:
- determine whether included easyblocks are generic or not based on class they define (#2432)
- make sure GitHub token is used in test for --preview-pr (#2436)
- take into account that toolchain components may be hidden when determining toolchain composition (#2440)
- stick to autopep8 1.3.4 when testing with Python 2.6 (#2462)
- strip off .lua extension when backing up modules to ensure Lmod 6.x doesn't pick up on them (#2463)
- check for modulecmd.tcl before modulecmd in bootstrap script to discriminate between Modules 4.1.x vs 3.2.10 (#2468)
- fix derive_alt_pypi_url after PyPI switching to sha256 in package URLs + fix broken test for pypi_source_urls + fix bootstrap script (#2471)
- make sure that both 'get_git_revision' and 'this_is_easybuild' return regular strings rather than Unicode strings (#2472)
v3.5.3 (March 7th 2018)
-----------------------
bugfix release
- various enhancements, including:
- re-enable testing against environment modules, bump Lmod to 7.7.16 (#2425)
- print which hook is being executed in the command line output (#2427)
- various bug fixes, including:
- fix order in result of gen_list_easyblocks and gen_easyblocks_overview_rst (#2421)
- fix target account for branch pushed when using --new-pr (#2426)
v3.5.2 (March 2nd 2018)
-----------------------
bugfix release
- various enhancements, including:
- add functionality to skip devel module with naming scheme (#2374)
- add pagination support in clean_gists.py (#2379)
- allow basic compiler modulenames to be specified as keys in optarch (#2387)
- initial set of OHPC module meta data for EasyBuild (#2392)
- allow different target account in post_comment_in_issue (#2399)
- declare support for RPATH linking stable (#2409)
- various bug fixes, including:
- update bootstrap script to be compatible with Modules v4 (#2390)
- avoid fatal error when determining glibc version on non-glibc Linux system (e.g. Alphine Linux) (#2398)
- exclude location of RPATH wrappers from $PATH to avoid fork bomb (#2410)
- fix target account for --update-pr in case it's different from GitHub account being used to push branch (#2419)
v3.5.1 (January 16th 2018)
--------------------------
bugfix release
- various enhancements, including:
- add definition of giolfc toolchain (#2359)
- add support for Environment Modules 4 (#2365)
- various bug fixes, including:
- install SQLAlchemy < 1.2.0 with Python 2.6 in Travis config (#2367)
- make code in easybuild/tools/job/gc3pie.py forward-compatible with GC3Pie 2.5 (#2373)
v3.5.0 (December 15th 2017)
---------------------------
feature release
- add support for implementing pre- and post-step hooks (#2343)
- documentation available at http://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Hooks.html
- various enhancements, including:
- add support for foss-like toolchain with Spectrum MPI: gsolf (#2329)
- add support for --preview-pr (#2331, #2337, #2348)
- see also http://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Integration_with_GitHub.html#previewing-easyconfig-pull-requests-preview-pr
- flesh out find_extension function, hoist dict with extract commands into a constant (#2336)
- add support for using self.start_dir rather than using self.cfg['start_dir'] (#2339)
- add support for 'exts_default_options' easyconfig parameter (#2345, #2346)
- allow use of 'start_dir' easyconfig parameter in extensions (#2353)
- various bug fixes, including:
- fix typo in 'giolf' toolchain definition (#2327)
- fix minor issues with --inject-checksums (#2333)
- fix error message when 'gv' Python package is not available (#2340)
- install paramiko version < 2.4.0 for Python 2.6 in Travis config (#2344)
- disable broken log rotation, avoid duplicate logging of output of executed commands under '--debug' (#2347)
- also include $ORIGIN and absolute paths to 'lib' and 'lib64' subdirectories in RPATH locations (#2358)
- fix repo references in install-EasyBuild-develop.sh script (#2360)
v3.4.1 (October 17th 2017)
--------------------------
bugfix release
- various enhancements, including:
- improve trace output for executed commands + drop requirement for --experimental for --trace (#2306)
- add giolf toolchain definition: GCC, IntelMPI, OpenBLAS, (Sca)LAPACK and FFTW (#2310)
- add support for --force-download and --ignore-checksums (#2313, #2314)
- flesh out pypi_source_urls from derive_alt_pypi_url (#2319)
- various bug fixes, including:
- also check for use of --rebuild next to --force to skip sanity check with --module-only (#2307)
- ensure $TMPDIR is set to a short path for OpenMPI v2.x (#2311)
- guard 'module load' commands in generated modules under --recursive-unload to avoid load storms (#2316)
- correctly deal with use of special characters in description & co (#2320)
- fix incorrect FFT_INC_DIR for Intel MKL (#2323)
v3.4.0 (September 10th 2017)
----------------------------
feature release
- various enhancements, including:
- add support for backing up modules via --backup-modules (#2134)
- enabled automatically with --module-only and --skip
- see also http://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Backup_modules.html
- add support for --search-paths to extend list of locations considered by --search/-S (#2255)
- include userInGroup check in Lua modules when installation is group-restricted (#2274)
- add experimental support for 'eb --trace' (#2285)
- see also http://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Tracing_progress.html
- add support for 'eb --inject-checksums' (#2286, #2292, #2293)
- see also http://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Writing_easyconfig_files.html#adding-or-replacing-checksums-using-inject-checksums
- add support for append_paths in module generator (#2294)
- various bug fixes, including:
- strip provided GitHub token of spaces in --install-github-token (#2270)
- remove 'provides' line from setup.py (#2275)
- pass down stdin in 'import' check for extensions during sanity check (#2276)
- make sure location to 'eb' installed during stage 1 is included in $PATH during stage 2 of bootstrap procedure (#2281)
- make resolve_path robust against None path being provided (#2282)
- ensure clean error message on easyconfig file parse failure (#2290)
- fix regex to avoid sucking up additional lines prior to module file path in modulefile_path (#2291)
- fix error message when --use-ccache is used but ccache is not available in $PATH (#2295)
v3.3.1 (July 12th 2017)
-----------------------
bugfix release
- various enhancements, including:
- add support for 'allow_prepend_abs_path' easyconfig parameter (#2254)
- support for --merge-pr (#2266)
- various bug fixes, including:
- resolve symlinks to location of 'eb' in get_paths_for (#2248)
- fall back to checking location relative to 'eb' location in find_eb_script (#2249)
- respect --suffix-modules-path value for user-specific module path extensions (#2250)
- update EasyBuild bootstrap script to download distribute tarball from http://easybuilders.github.io/easybuild/files (#2256)
- fix default target GitHub account/organisation for --new-pr & co + fix tests that got broken by migration to github.com/easybuilders (#2258)
- fix checking for new easyconfigs in copy_easyconfigs, pick up specified commit message as PR title if none was provided (#2259)
- get rid of references to hpcugent after move to github.com/easybuilders (#2261)
- automatically enable --ignore-osdeps under --new-pr and --update-pr (#2262)
v3.3.0 (June 26th 2017)
-----------------------
feature release
- various enhancements, including:
- clean up easyconfigs that are copied for inclusion in pull request (#2197, #2227)
- use devel logging where relevant in easybuild.tools.toolchain (#2198)
- check exit code for executed module commands (#2200)
- also copy patches to installation directory & easyconfigs archive along with easyconfig file (#2202, #2241)
- add support for SHA256 checksums (#2215)
- also auto-detect whether provided checksum is MD5 or SHA256 based on length (if not checksum type is specified)
- add support for --enforce-checksums, to require availability of checksums for sources/patches
- see https://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Writing_easyconfig_files.html#source-files-patches-and-checksums
- add support for renaming sources on download (#2223)
- also involves deprecating use of 2-tuple elements in list of sources, see https://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Deprecated-functionality.html#depr-sources-2-element-tuple
- add support for --detect-loaded-modules (#2228)
- give extensions access to module_generator of parent (#2229)
- pass down additional arguments to copy_dir down to shutil.copytree (#2230)
- avoid reloading already loaded modules that extend $MODULEPATH (#2232)
- various bug fixes, including:
- make sure test account & accompanying token is used in tests for github.py (#2220, #2224)
- only use MPD for old versions of Intel MPI (<4.1) in mpi_cmd_for (#2221)
- escape dots in package filename to ensure correct match in derive_alt_pypi_url (#2225)
- fix GNU_SOURCE template by adding missing /gnu/ (#2235)
- catch exception shutil.Error in copy_file (#2239)
- report full error and traceback on unhandled exception in test report (#2240)
- fix --set-default-module flag (#2243)
v3.2.1 (May 12th 2017)
----------------------
bugfix release
- various enhancements, including:
- make hardcoded max ratio for failures in adjust_permissions configurable (#2213)
- allow https on direct download in sources (#2214)
- various bug fixes, including:
- bump version bootstrap script to sync with latest update (#2208)
- fix crash during module generation when '%' character is used in description (#2209)
v3.2.0 (May 5th 2017)
---------------------
feature release
- various enhancements, including:
- add support for marking installed module file as new default version using --set-default-module (#2110)
- additional easyconfig parameters for documentation: docpaths, examples, site_contacts, upstream_contacts, usage (#2113)
- add support for --allow-use-as-root-and-accept-consequences (#2123)
- enable extraction of patches from compressed files before applying them (#2128)
- alphabetically sort functions and methods in module_generator module (#2132)
- introduce function ensure_iterable_license_specs (#2157)
- bump Travis config to use Lmod 7.4 (#2176)
- implement copy_dir function in filetools (#2177)
- clarify error message when no software-specific easyblock was found (#2178)
- make log.deprecated more verbose by also printing deprecation warnings to stderr (#2179)
- add copy function to filetools for easy copying of lists of files/directories (#2180)
- add support for --verify-easyconfig-filenames (#2185)
- add support for --package-tool-options (#2187)
- take into account inline trailing comments in fetch_parameters_from_easyconfig (#2192)
- add support for customising easyconfig parameters on a per-extension basis (#2194)
- perform sanity check after stage 2 of EasyBuild bootstrap script, module file should be in place (#2199)
- change order in which module commands are checked, consider Lmod first (#2201)
- various bug fixes, including:
- fix use of compiler-specific --optarch value in combination with --job (#2183)
- call run_all_steps in regtest mode rather than running steps individually (#2203)
v3.1.2 (March 20th 2017)
------------------------
bugfix release
- fix broken packaging support by fixing ``run_cmd`` bug with ``shell=False`` (#2153)
- minor enhancements, including:
- implement change_dir function in filetools module (#2155)
- use checker_state in trailing whitespace style check + add dedicated test (#2160, #2169)
- consider both pycodestyle and pep8 Python modules in style checks (#2161)
- make bootstrap script aware various modules-related $EASYBUILD_* environment variables (#2170)
- various bug fixes, including:
- interpret statements that extend $MODULEPATH in modpath_extensions_for method (#2104)
- also fixes inclusion of superfluous load statements in modules installed in user HMNS module tree (cfr. #2172)
- take into account that $PATH or $PYTHONPATH may be empty when running tests (#2149)
- handle duplicates in --include-* (#2151)
- exclude dependencies of dependencies that extend $MODULEPATH (#2152)
- add ld.bfd to RPATH wrappers (#2156)
- fix test_vsc_location, vsc.__file__ may not be available when vsc is installed as a namespace package (#2159)
- fix reported problems with scripts & docs tests (#2164)
- fix --try-software-version using non-greedy matching + lookahead assertion, add test for tweak_one (#2166)
- avoid creating empty modulefile directories when using modaltsoftname (#2168)
- fix fftw_libs for MKL without interface libraries (#2171)
v3.1.1 (March 7th 2017)
-----------------------
bugfix release
- minor enhancements, including:
- print more useful error message when no compiler-specific optarch flag is defined (#1950)
- add ec parameter to expand_toolchain_load() (#2103)
- clarify unstable/closed PR warning message (#2129)
- various bug fixes, including:
- ensure that $EBEXTSLIST* is also included in generated module under --module-only (#2112)
- fix formatting issues in generated documentation for --list-software and --avail-easyconfig-licenses (#2121)
- fix problem with backticks in description breaking 'fpm' packaging command (#2124)
- replace --enable-new-dtags with --disable-new-dtags instead of removing it in RPATH wrapper script (#2131)
- only perform is_short_modname_for sanity check in det_short_module_name if modaltsoftname is available (#2138)
- fix logic in make_module_dep w.r.t. excluding loads for toolchain & toolchain components (#2140)
- skip test_check_style if pep8 is not available (#2142)
v3.1.0 (February 3rd 2017)
--------------------------
feature release
- various enhancements, including:
- ARM: GCC optimal/generic architecture compiler flags (#1974)
- add support for --check-style to check style in easyconfig files (#1618, #2038)
- add HOME and USER from envto available cfg file constants (#2063)
- --optarch can now be specified on a toolchain basis (#2071)
- implement get_cpu_features function in systemtools (#2074, #2078)
- support use of linalg without MPI, add iimkl toolchain definition (#2082)
- spoof HTTP request header with empty agent (#2083)
- exclude dependencies of dependencies that extend $MODULEPATH in make_module_dep (#2091)
- various bug fixes, including:
- make fetch_github_token more robust against RuntimeError from keyring (#2070)
- POWER: Fix `--optarch=GENERIC` for GCC (#2073)
- fix docstring in toolchain class (#2075)
- skip test cases involving .yeb if PyYAML is not installed, silence test in options subsuite (#2081)
- fix traceback with 'eb --check-github' if GitPython is not installed (#2085)
- fix regex for determining list of patched files in GitHub diff (#2088)
- modify robot so that it only appends dependencies of tweaked easyconfigs (#2090)
- escape metacharacters in paths passed to re.compile in dry_run_set_dirs (#2098)
- fix broken error message in get_toolchain_hierarchy + dedicated test case (#2099)
v3.0.2 (December 22nd 2016)
---------------------------
bugfix release
- various bug fixes, including:
- also skip dependencies of dependencies marked as external module in get_toolchain_hierarchy (#2042)
- disable verbose setvar in modules.py (#2044)
- force copying of easyconfigs in --new-pr/--update-pr, even when combined with -x (#2045)
- fix verification of filename for easyconfigs used to resolve deps (#2051)
- skip RPATH sanity check when toolchain did not use RPATH wrappers (#2052)
- check whether file-like paths are readable before reading them in systemtools module (#2065)
- various small enhancements, including:
- add 'rpath' toolchain option to selectively disable use of RPATH wrappers (#2047)
v3.0.1 (November 30th 2016)
---------------------------
bugfix release
- important changes
- always use Intel-specific MPI compiler wrappers (mpiicc, mpiicpc, mpiifort) for toolchains using
both Intel compilers and Intel MPI (#2005)
- various small enhancements, including:
- use setvar in modules.py to define environment variables (#2011)
- include output of sanity_check_commands in the build log (#2020)
- various bug fixes, including:
- fix testing of bootstrap script in Travis config (#2003)
- use correct module syntax in bootstrap script if Lmod is not used (i.e. Tcl) (#2007)
- fix packaging issue with non-Python scripts in easybuild/scripts (#2015)
- fixes issue where RPATH wrapper template script (rpath_wrapper_template.sh.in) was not included in v3.0.0 release
- make tests more robust against running headless (#2016)
- avoid rewrapping already wrapped compiler/linker command with RPATH wrapper script (#2022)
- fix log.error traceback due to 'raise EasyBuildError' involving a '%s' in error message (#2024)
- make sure 'modules_tool' attribute is also defined for extensions (#2026)
- only dump easyconfig with modified deps due to --minimal-toolchains to 'reprod' subdir of install dir (#2028)
- avoid appending '-h' to sanity check commands specified as a string (#2030)
- fix bug in list_software_rst: always include versionsuffix regardless of value (#2032)
v3.0.0 (November 16th 2016)
---------------------------
feature release
- backward-incompatible changes:
- make robot always consider subtoolchains, even without --minimal-toolchains (but in reverse order) (#1973)
- clean up behaviour that was deprecated for EasyBuild v3.0 (#1978)
- change default config to use Lmod/Lua for modules tool/syntax, GC3Pie as job backend (#1985)
- the minimal required version of Lmod was bumped to 5.8 (#1985)
- major new features:
- (experimental) support for RPATH linking via --rpath (#1942)
- see https://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/RPATH-support.html
- add support for --consider-archived-easyconfigs (#1972)
- see https://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Archived-easyconfigs.html
- stabilize --new-pr and --update-pr (#1979)
- see https://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Integration_with_GitHub.html
- various other small enhancements, including:
- add support for 'devel' log level (#1815)
- make remove_file aware of --extended-dry-run + add dedicated unit test (#1932)
- add support for filtering out setting/updating particular environment variables from generated modules (#1943)
- see --filter-env-vars
- clean up output of EasyBuild bootstrap script & add version (#1944)
- improved ARM platform/CPU detection (#1953)
- use '0' as letter dir for funky software names that don't start with a letter, e.g., 3to2 (#1954)
- make bootstrap script aware of vsc-install for offline installation (#1955)
- add support for blas_family() and lapack_family() methods in Toolchain instances (#1961)
- make copy_file dry-run aware (#1963)
- reorganise test easyconfigs to match structure in easyconfigs repo (#1970)
- add a toolchain compiler option for enforcing IEEE-754 conformance (#1975)
- support for intelcuda compiler toolchain (#1976)
- check that each glob pattern matches at least one file expand_glob_paths (important for --include-*) (#1980)
- enhance bootstrap to auto-skip stage 0 in case a suitable setuptools is already available (#1946, #1984)
- simplify GC3Pie version check (#1987)
- include suggestion on how to change configuration w.r.t. modules tool/syntax (#1989)
- various bug fixes, including:
- fix test for find_easybuild_easyconfig (#1931)
- remove existing module file under --force/--rebuild (#1933)
- fix combining --search and --try-* (#1937)
- fix appending to existing buildstats in FileRepository.add_easyconfig (#1948)
- fix handling of iterate easyconfig parameters, restore them during cleanup (#1949)
- fix filtering loads for (hidden) build deps from generated module (#1959)
- handle multi-flag compiler options on all types of options (#1966)
- fix --list-software by making letter_dir_for function aware of '*' wildcard name (#1969)
- skip dependencies of toolchain marked as external modules when determining module hierarchy (#1977)
- bump page limit in fetch_latest_commit_sha, spit out more meaningful error if too many branches were encountered (#1981)
- fix CUDA-related issues in HierarchicalMNS (#1986)
v2.9.0 (September 23rd 2016)
----------------------------
feature release
- note: vsc-base 2.5.4 or more recent is now required
- various small enhancements, including:
- change option `--color` choices to auto/always/never (#1701, #1898, #1911)
- add support for 'hidden' easyconfig parameter (#1837)
- add support for using ccache and f90cache compiler caching tools (#1844, #1912)
- see --use-ccache and --use-f90cache
- update Cray metadata for 16.06 CrayPE release (#1851)
- also include patch files in --new-pr and --update-pr (#1852)
- handle deleted files in --new-pr (#1853)
- add support for --install-latest-eb-release (#1861)
- add support for hiding toolchains, see --hide-toolchains and 'hidden' key in 'toolchain' spec (#1871)
- add template for GitHub source URL (#1872)
- add support for combining --new-pr/--update-pr and --robot (#1881)
- add support for --list-software and --list-installed-software (#1883, #1910, #1917)
- print message on which extension is being installed, incl. progress counter (#1886, #1914)
- add support for --github-org to specify GitHub organisation rather than GitHub user (#1894)
- add support for running Lmod in debug mode (#1895)
- avoid needless use of deepcopy, speed up support for templating in easyconfigs (#1897)
- convert all_dependencies to a property in EasyConfig class (#1909)
- add support for --mpi-cmd-template (#1918)
- add support for --disable-mpi-tests (#1920)
- various bug fixes, including:
- merge with develop when using --from-pr (#1838, #1867)
- ensure --new-pr doesn't open empty pull requests (#1846)
- better error handling for outdated GitPython module in --check-github (#1847)
- fix formatting for generated easyblocks documentation (#1860)
- make sure the robot ignores filtered dependencies (#1862)