Re: [ptp-dev] module usage

[Alan Morris <amorris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > > At Los Alamos, we use modules to set environment to run LANL installed 
> > > tools like compilers.  I'm wondering who else within listening distance is 
> > > using modules?  Apparently LLNL is not, at least on the machine I tried. 
> > > (A module is just a shell script that set a users environment variables).
> >
> > We use them here at the University of Oregon.  Why do you ask?  Are you 
> > thinking of adding some capability for Eclipse/Java to interact with 
> > Environment Modules?
>
> Yes.  For example, the remote environment settings probably need to be saved 
> in a project so that we can ensure that they exist when a remote make is 
> done.  Is TAU storing environment variable somewhere?  How do you pass them 
> to your tools when they are run?

There are environment variables that affect the measurement library's 
operation, such as which PAPI counters to use.  No path information is 
necessary.

Alan