forked from easybuilders/easybuild-framework
-
Notifications
You must be signed in to change notification settings - Fork 1
EasyBuild
Kenneth Hoste edited this page Apr 26, 2012
·
9 revisions
EasyBuild is a framework for building and installing software in a structured, repeatable and robust way. EasyBuild is written in Python.
It was developed by the High-Performance Computing team at Ghent University and was motivated by the need for a system that allows to:
- independently install multiple versions of a software package side-by-side
- support multiple compilers and libraries for building a software package and its dependencies
- keep the package configuration simple
- divert from the standard configure / make / make install with custom procedures (which is often necessary for scientific packages)
- use environment modules for dependency resolution and for making the software available to users in a transparent way
- keep a record of the installation logs
- keep track of the installation configuration in a version control system
Some key properties of EasyBuild:
- the installation configuration is done using a (very concise) easyconfig (a .eb file)
- the custom behaviour is described in easyblocks; these are Python classes that can be plugged into the EasyBuild framework
- the generation of the module files to easily make the software available to users
- the dependencies for installation are resolved using environment modules and can be automatically installed using the robot feature
- after the installation, the easyconfigs can be sent to a repository for archiving
For more information on EasyBuild, see the documentation wiki on github.