[Swift-devel] Vanilla python

[Ti Leggett]

How's that different than the python already built in /soft/python? I don't recall doing anything out of the ordinary to build that.

On Jul 25, 2012, at 9:01 AM, Lorenzo Pesce wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> I am going to build a version of python to be used in a test pipeline, which will eventually become a swift pipeline for genomics research (you will receive a lot of messages about it in the next few weeks).
> 
> Python doesn't seem to be capable of running on the compute notes with more than one instance on a Cray XE6 (Beagle), as Mike told me multiple times ;-)
> 
> My understanding is that what I need is a vanilla version which has to be build with the gcc compiler only, without using the scripts. I plan to strip it of multithreading too if necessary, but right now I don't see why it should be.
> 
> I will first try as:
> -install it under vanilla_python (any better name? I would like to use the same name for all the similarly build environments, from perl to R)
> -using gcc directly
> -I will reinstall all relevant packages under its won tree and built in the same way
> 
> Any other suggestions? Am I missing something?
> 
> Lorenzo
> 

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