don't enable prefer_lib_subdir by default in GCC easyblock #1035
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This was enabled by default in #1030 with the intention of making sure that
/lib
subdirectories of the dependencies that were installed with EasyBuild get preference over/usr/lib64
.However, it has the side-effect of also preferring
/usr/lib
over/usr/lib64
, which leads to problem like these:with:
with
I think we probably could enable this by default for sufficiently recent versions of
binutils
(which are potentially smart enough to skip incompatible libraries), but I'm not 100% sure, and I don't have time to figure this out right now.cc @sebth, @geimer (you mentioned something about side effects in #921... ;-))