configure/cmake

[henkela]

Hi,
do you consider using cmake or autotools/automake in the future again? This would make it easier to have build recipes with easybuild for instance. Otherwise, one would have to prepare patches or a config.mk writer.
Best regards,
Andreas

[emstoudenmire]

Hi Andreas,
No plans to do this at the moment. We don't want to have cmake required as a dependency, so at most in the future we could support it as an optional way to do the build.

Could you please elaborate more on the need to prepare patches or making a config.mk writer? I'm don't follow the context regarding either of those.

Miles

[henkela]

Hi Miles,
thanks for your prompt reply.
Well, many cluster admins use software installation frameworks like Easybuild(https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild) or Spark. Those frameworks wrap the usual configuremake, cmake, and so on, to be able to install software easily and reproduceable. That is to say, compiler-wise compile options are managed centrally as well and applied upon installation.
As I understood the installation of ITensor one has to modify config.mk to contain the paths to the software/compilers and the compile-opts. If I want to install ITensor with Easybuild I'd have to prepare at least one patch that takes care of modifying config.mk. I didn't check yet but it may be necessary to have more than one patch to take variations in compilers/numerical libraries into account as well.
Best regards
Andreas

[henkela]

Hi Miles,
thanks for your prompt reply.
Well, many cluster admins use software installation frameworks like Easybuild(https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild) or Spark. Those frameworks wrap the usual configuremake, cmake, and so on, to be able to install software easily and reproduceable. That is to say, compiler-wise compile options are managed centrally as well and applied upon installation.
As I understood the installation of ITensor one has to modify config.mk to contain the paths to the software/compilers and the compile-opts. If I want to install ITensor with Easybuild I'd have to prepare at least one patch that takes care of modifying config.mk. I didn't check yet but it may be necessary to have more than one patch to take variations in compilers/numerical libraries into account as well.
Best regards
Andreas