Test report by @boegel
SUCCESS
Build succeeded for 8 out of 8 (4 easyconfigs in this PR)
node2481.golett.os - Linux centos linux 7.4.1708, Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v3 @ 2.50GHz, Python 2.7.5
See https://gist.github.com/b844bdf347822e589be05c7ebb0c5cc0 for a full test report.

Test report by @boegel
SUCCESS
Build succeeded for 4 out of 4 (4 easyconfigs in this PR)
node2057.delcatty.os - Linux centos linux 7.4.1708, Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz, Python 2.7.5
See https://gist.github.com/b92a5993b61e570c55ca8d449fae8ce4 for a full test report.

Test report by @migueldiascosta
SUCCESS
Build succeeded for 4 out of 4 (4 easyconfigs in this PR)
grc-cluster1 - Linux centos 6.9, Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2640 0 @ 2.50GHz, Python 2.6.6
See https://gist.github.com/08e49f8aae0395fa0fdb2b84d85747ab for a full test report.

Test report by @vanzod
SUCCESS
Build succeeded for 4 out of 4 (4 easyconfigs in this PR)
cermis - Linux debian 9.3, Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5620 @ 2.40GHz, Python 2.7.13
See https://gist.github.com/08455d313b395840e6f0c89a70f72728 for a full test report.

Results from testing existing easyconfigs that use the intel/2017b toolchain with intel/2018a (210 easyconfigs at the time):

• HDF5 1.10.1 requires a patch to build correctly

  • was already made available by @reedts via Added HDF5-1.10.1 for intel-2018.00 with patch to satisfy mpiifort-2018.0.128 #5310
  • easyconfig for intel/2018a in {data}[intel/2018a] HDF5 v1.10.1 #5582

• LLVM 5.0.x fails when compiling llvm-5.0.0.src/lib/IR/Attributes.cpp with error: expression must have a constant value

  • fixed with patch in {compiler}[intel/2018a] LLVM v5.0.1 #5631

• ImageMagick 7.0.7-14 fails with:

  ": internal error: ** The compiler has encountered an unexpected problem.
  ** Segmentation violation signal raised. **
  Access violation or stack overflow. Please contact Intel Support for assistance.
  
  compilation aborted for coders/cip.c (code 4)
  

  I'll look into reporting this to Intel.

• failures because of hardcoded use of -openmp (which is no longer valid: icpc: command line error: option '-openmp' is not supported. Please use the replacement option '-qopenmp');

  • BLAST+ 2.6.0 + 2.7.1
  • ESMF 7.0.2 (+ NCL 6.4.0 that depends on ESMF)
  • to be fixed in upcoming PRs

• other minor issues (will be handled when need arises):

  • DFTB+ 17.1: failing tests
  • mkl-dnn 0.11: compilation fails because a loop was not vectorised (?!)
  • MIRA 4.0.2: error: no instance of overloaded function "MIRAParameters::parse" matches the argument list

Going in, thanks @boegel!