Conference notes for 2024 09 10

Lmod Zoom Mtg: 2024-09-10

Addendees

• Robert McLay (TACC)
• Shelly Johnson (U. Vermont)
• Bennet Fauber (U. Vermont)

Agenda

• Q/A
• A demo of new support hidden and forbidden modules
  • Branch IS690-hide now support hide{} and forbid{} functions
  • hide{name="sn or fullName",kind="hidden or soft or hard",before="yyyy-mm-dd",after="yyyy-mm-dd",hidden_load=true,user={},group={},notuser={}, notgroup={} }
  • forbid{name="",before="",after="",message="", nearlymessage="",user/notuser={}, group/notgroup={}}
  • TCL .modulerc files support Tmod commands: module-hide, module-forbid
  • Releasing this branch now.
  • Becomes the main branch at SC.
• A discussion of source_sh and sh_to_modulefile internal changes
  • Changed the way that prepend/append calculated
  • Old way would sometime use setenv() instead of prepend/append
  • Could lose $PATH when unloading.
  • New way checks for any old paths: No old paths -> setenv()
  • Otherwise any new paths are either prepend or append
• zsh startup issues resolved. Now in Lmod 8.7.49

__build_FPATH_for_zsh_ksh()
{
  (compinit -C 2> /dev/null)
  if [ "$?" != 0 ]; then
    __zsh_fpath=$(unset FPATH; zsh -f -c 'echo $FPATH')
  fi
  
  export FPATH=$(@PKGV@/libexec/addto --append FPATH ${__zsh_fpath:-$FPATH} @PKGV@/init/ksh_funcs)
  unset __zsh_fpath
}

• Fixed a bug in installation docs:
  • Had as an example /path/to/modulefiles/\*
  • This is a formatting bug in rst. Most times need: * but not in indented sections
• User wanted a local install of TCL. Lmod's configure now supports TCL_PKG_CONFIG_DIR to help pkg-config find local TCL includes and libs
• python3 support mysqlclient seems to be gone
  • Looking to see if Mysql connector will work.
• Discussion of other Lmod issues over the past month