Working directory pickup of configuration files

[espenfl]

Is there support for eb picking the configuration file in the folder it is executed? Does not seems to be the case and I could not find it in the docs. Is this something that could rather easily be added?

Also, maybe I did not read the documentation clearly enough, but how is the configuration variables set if you have a global configuration file and a local one? Maybe that is not possible and only one is used/specified? In this case, it would be nice to support this in view of the initial question.

[akesandgren]

If you mean the EasyBuild configuration file, easybuild.cfg then you can use --configfiles= which expects a "," separated list of files to read the configuration from. See eb --help for more details.

The variables are read in the order specified by --configfiles or by default site-config, user-config. Last read value wins.

[j3mdamas]

I second this. When it comes to automatic finding of configuration files, "most software" (personal experience) go: current dir->user dir->system dir. The two last are implemented, but not the first one.

From a quick look on the code, I think this only needs some changes on easybuild/tools/options.py, unless I'm underestimating it. If there's interest, I could do a PR.

[boegel]

@j3mdamas That definitely seems like a worthy enhancement, please go ahead and open a PR if you're up for it...