Trouble with DB-18.1.40 in foss-2020b

[cmfield]

Installation of foss-2020b fails at DB, and separate installation also fails:

Failed to read ./generic/eb_v4.3.4/ConfigureMake/config.guess

I have no idea..

[boegel]

@cmfield We'll need some more context here:

• Which EasyBuild version? Which OS?
• How is EasyBuild configured? (please share the output of eb --show-config)
• Which exact eb command are you running?

The ./ start of that path seems to suggest you're using a relative path somewhere in your EasyBuild configuration, perhaps?

[boegel]

@cmfield I can reproduce this problem by using a relative path for --sourcepath, for example with:

eb DB-18.1.40-GCCcore-10.2.0.eb --sourcepath .

This is essentially the same problem as reported in #3619.

The workaround/fix is simple: don't use a relative path, use $PWD rather than . in this specific case.

We'll fix this in the EasyBuild framework itself, by resolving relative paths to the corresponding absolute paths early on...

[cmfield]

Ah, I was hoping it was something silly like that. Thanks for the super swift response, on a weekend!