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snappy

License information

The snappy license can be found in the COPYING file in the GitHub repository.

Pre-installed modules (and EasyConfigs)

To access module help and find out for which stacks and partitions the module is installed, use module spider snappy/<version>.

EasyConfig:

Technical documentation

General information

  • Snappy is build using CMake.
  • Snappy can use zlib and lzo2.
  • There are CMake flags to enforce AVX or AVX2 but it is not clear if these are needed as I cannot find where they define symbols that would then be used in the code. It does influence compiler options that are added though.
  • Note that building snappy requires two iterations if we want both static and shared libraries.

EasyBuild

This README was developed starting with snappy 1.1.8 in the CPE 21.06.

1.1.8 from CPE 21.06 on.

  • We stuck to 1.1.8 even though 1.1.9 was out because in 1.1.9 the build process has changed and seems to require various Google tools.

  • This EasyConfig was made to prepare for inclusion in the baselibs Bundle.

  • The dependencies on zlib and LZO (lzo2) were added to the dependencies list to ensure a build with maximum potential.

  • We also added an option to install in lib instead of lib64 as almost all of the other packages also install in lib.

1.1.9 from CPE 21.12 on

  • Went to 1.1.9 but used the fix from the EasyBuilders EasyConfig to avoid the use of the Google tools

  • for cpeAMD from 23.09 on (likely due to a change in behaviour of cmake or compiler wrappers) needed to turn off error messages about unused arguments as there were some -L lines added that were not used.

Archived EasyConfigs

The EasyConfigs below are additonal easyconfigs that are not directly available on the system for installation. Users are advised to use the newer ones and these archived ones are unsupported. They are still provided as a source of information should you need this, e.g., to understand the configuration that was used for earlier work on the system.