@jose-d Any idea how hard it would be to include these as 'proper' EasyBuild dependencies?

@jose-d Any idea how hard it would be to include these as 'proper' EasyBuild dependencies?

Mhmm. Of-course, it would be doable.

Actually the question is, "do we want EB to include all the small toys"? Or do we expect the distro will give us the basics? I am most likely too new in this project to answer this properly.

In this case I somehow miss non-existing "osbuilddependencies" - we don't need anything like xmlto nor asciidoc for runtime..

Travis test report: 7/7 runs failed - see https://travis-ci.org/easybuilders/easybuild-

y. there are no shasums in the older ebs.. I'll fix it.

@jose-d The policy is to rely on OS dependencies as little as possible. We do it in some cases though, e.g. OpenSSL (because of security updates that are picked up from the OS) and Infiniband libraries like libibverbs which are tightly coupled with the drivers. That's also part of the reason why there's no such thing as osbuilddependencies yet.

For everything else, ideally we resolve the dependencies through EasyBuild itself, but sometimes that may not be worth the effort. I seem to remember that asciidoc is a bit of a mess for example...

I seem to remember that asciidoc is a bit of a mess for example...

I took look and .. you remember it well.

Regarding xmlto, it is kind of swiss-knife so it has plenty of for-our-usecase-not-required dependencies. Currently missing (mostly not-mandatory) deps of xmlto in EB stack are:

• libpaper (doable)
• dblatex (huh)
• fop (java, huh)
• texlive-xmltex (huh)
• zip (doable)

So to create minimal version of xmlto is IMHO not undoable.

To create full-featured xmlto - that could be pretty funny task.

Man-pages of git, are TBH, quite poor motivation to invest our time into (la)tex(live) build hell, especially from the standpoint of HPC users. (I checked it with some guys here and they write their papers on laptops, not on HPC front-end nodes ^^ )

Test report by @boegel
FAILED
Build succeeded for 13 out of 14 (14 easyconfigs in this PR)
gligar02.gligar.os - Linux centos linux 7.5.1804, Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz, Python 2.7.5
See https://gist.github.com/2ed735963caf938353d7188dc24172a4 for a full test report.

Test report by @boegel
SUCCESS
Build succeeded for 1 out of 1 (1 easyconfigs in this PR)
gligar02.gligar.os - Linux centos linux 7.5.1804, Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz, Python 2.7.5
See https://gist.github.com/f53fd6461a0cad7d9a14fab0de5b0502 for a full test report.

Going in, thanks @jose-d!