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spec files of Lmod for UGent-HPC

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knows caveats #18

Open wpoely86 opened 7 years ago

wpoely86 commented 7 years ago

list of knows caveats with Lmod compared to environment modules setup:

module load cluster is broken, must use module load cluster/$VSC_DEFAULT_CLUSTER_MODULE
changes to $MODULEPATH must be done with module use
- if not, Lmod may spit out The environment MODULEPATH has been changed in unexpected ways

bugs/issues:

output of module list and module --terse avail doesn't go do stdout as desired
manual module use on /apps/gent/.../modules/all results in spider cache not being found
- /apps/gent is a symlink, which gets resolved on manual module use, leading to path mismatch (bug in Lmod?)

wpoely86 commented 7 years ago

As long as you strictly only append or prepend to the $MODULEPATH, you could get away without use?

Off all these issues, only the second remains and is unavoidable. However, if you consistently pre- or append, you should be just fine.

@boegel: module load cluster is still broken when the cluster module is already loaded, but let's see if we need to remedy that