{devel,vis}[GCCcore/5.4.0] GLib v2.49.5, PCRE v8.39 (WIP)

[vanzod]

(created using eb --new-pr)

[vanzod]

Test report by @vanzod
SUCCESS
Build succeeded for 2 out of 2 (2 easyconfigs in this PR)
cermis - Linux debian 8.8, Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5620 @ 2.40GHz, Python 2.7.9
See https://gist.github.com/a95cad3d1a800857f30dc96f6795c675 for a full test report.

[boegel]

@vanzod It does, because EasyBuild requires a Python 2.x to be available as well, but we shouldn't rely on the system Python here?

In the hopefully not so distant future, you'll be able to run EasyBuild on top of a system Python 3, which would break this build?

[vanzod]

Good point. However that would require Python at the GCCcore level. I would rather build it against a bare python at the GCC or iccifort level.

[boegel]

Ah, yes, that compilates things a bit...

Although, a bare Python at GCCcore should be fine, no?

[vanzod]

I guess so but on our cluster at the moment we provide it at the GCC and iccifort level.
I can easily add Python-2.7.12-GCCcore-5.4.0 to this PR if you wish to merge it.

[boegel]

Well, yeah, that will work too, I'd rather do that than commenting out the build dep, that'll backfire sometime in the future imho...

[vanzod]

Before pushing a Python-2.7.12-GCCcore easyconfig to solve the missing dependency if not using the system Python, a SciPy with a dedicated interpreter needs to be available in order to overcome the performance issue arising from the incorrect use of math functions.

[migueldiascosta]

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