[Users] Issues getting Einstein Toolkit built on Scientific Linux 6

[Erik Schnetter]

The difference here is that HDF5 is expected to be installed manually,
which is much more work than e.g. "sudo apt-get install gsl".

The starting point of the discussion was that there was another person
using SL6, and problems ensued because GSL was expected to be installed,
but this was not documented in the option list.

-erik



On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 12:56 AM, Barry Wardell <barry.wardell at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Erik Schnetter <schnetter at cct.lsu.edu>wrote:
>
>> The option list still assumes that HDF5 has been installed manually into
>> /opt/hdf5/1.8.7. If this option list is supposed to be easy to use, I
>> would remove this, and let Cactus build HDF5.
>>
>
> It is intended to be useful as a general Scientific Linux 6 optionlist,
> but it is currently only used by one machine (tesla). We could create a
> separate optionlist for that machine and make sl6.cfg more generic as you
> suggest, but then there would be nobody using sl6.cfg and it could easily
> go out of date.
>
> In the case of the Mac OS X optionlists, we decided not to do this and to
> just require that certain packages are installed. How does this differ from
> that case?
>



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Erik Schnetter <schnetter at cct.lsu.edu>
http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/personal/eschnetter/
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