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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0003047 | ThirdParty | Patch | public | 2018-08-18 01:57 | 2018-08-21 18:56 |
| Reporter | handrake0724 | Assigned To | henry | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | closed | Resolution | no change required | ||
| Platform | x86_64 | OS | Linux | OS Version | Arch |
| Product Version | dev | ||||
| Summary | 0003047: Request for enabling thirdparty libraries information can be set through environment variables | ||||
| Description | In HPC, developing and running apps come in handy through environment variables like Lmod. OpenFOAM depends on environment variables to determine its behavior for installing and operating. So, I introduced Lmod for using OpenFOAM. Most of the behavior are possible to control with environment variables. Thirdparty libraries like CGAL, boost, scotch, metis are depening on the script in OpenFOAM-<x>/etc/config.sh and it should be modified when version other than the default library version is desired. IMO, it would be nice to have OpenFOAM look up environment variables for thirdparty library version before setting values. This behavior can be made with parameter expansion of shell script and a patch is attached. Using the patch and the attached Lmod script which needs some modification to work with the patch can control all of the OpenFOAM. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
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We used this approach in the past but found it confusing, difficult to maintain and very difficult to change between versions without complex environment variable unsetting scripts. Instead we implemented a more straight forward approach of allowing the files which set environment variables to be overridden e.g.: _foamSource `$WM_PROJECT_DIR/bin/foamEtcFile config.sh/CGAL so you can put a local version of the CGAL in any of the locations foamEtcFile searches, type foamEtcFile -list and you will get the list of directories. |
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The current foamEtcFile approach is more general. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2018-08-18 01:57 | handrake0724 | New Issue | |
| 2018-08-18 01:57 | handrake0724 | File Added: patch.tar.gz | |
| 2018-08-20 10:28 | henry | Note Added: 0009976 | |
| 2018-08-21 18:56 | henry | Assigned To | => henry |
| 2018-08-21 18:56 | henry | Status | new => closed |
| 2018-08-21 18:56 | henry | Resolution | open => no change required |
| 2018-08-21 18:56 | henry | Note Added: 0009983 |
