add missing OS dependencies in Java 1.8 easyconfig used on POWER systems

[Flamefire]

(created using eb --new-pr)

Fixes #9452

[boegel]

@Flamefire (or @branfosj) Are you up for submitting a test report for this on a POWER system?

[branfosj]

Test report by @branfosj
SUCCESS
Build succeeded for 1 out of 1 (1 easyconfigs in this PR)
bear-pg0305u19a.bear.cluster - Linux RHEL 7.6, 8335-GTX, Python 2.7.5
See https://gist.github.com/402b4b115aee14a3e7c6491b04779a75 for a full test report.

[Flamefire]

Currently running (again)

Just wanted to highlight the option --disable-headful added which removes X support and therefore the X dependency. IMO for HPC this is OK. I don't really like the e.g. freetype dependency either, and was thinking about adding a dependency on the freetype ECs, but this is a SYSTEM package. Creating a SYSTEM toolchain freetype is also possible but I'm not sure if this can lead to conflicts as jvm/openjdk-1.8.0-internal/jre/lib/ppc64/libfontmanager.so depends on libfreetype.so.6. Was there a similar situation already? How was it solved?

[Flamefire]

Test report by @Flamefire
SUCCESS
Build succeeded for 1 out of 1 (1 easyconfigs in this PR)
taurusml8 - Linux RHEL 7.6, 8335-GTX, Python 2.7.5
See https://gist.github.com/3663e2955401671858ecdbe27aab2c0b for a full test report.

[boegel]

@Flamefire Adding freetype as a dependency also implies relying on the system compiler to compile freetype (and all its (build) dependencies), which may lead to surprises/problems too.

@branfosj Any objections to the changes made here?

[zao]

Just wanted to highlight the option --disable-headful added which removes X support and therefore the X dependency. IMO for HPC this is OK.

Would this be for this particular Java easyconfig or everything?

On our site we install software with GUI components on our windowing-capable login nodes. It's not unfathomable that some of those UIs may be in Java, and it's definitely an aspect of "HPC" that EasyBuild tends to cover.

[branfosj]

I'd prefer not adding the --disable-headful. We certainly have applications that are GUI based that we'd make available. Also, this would make this Java different to the other versions available.

[Flamefire]

Sure. What would the right osdependencies be in this case? The build suggests You might be able to fix this by running 'sudo yum install libXtst-devel libXt-devel libXrender-devel'.

[Flamefire]

Test report by @Flamefire
SUCCESS
Build succeeded for 1 out of 1 (1 easyconfigs in this PR)
taurusml8 - Linux RHEL 7.6, 8335-GTX, Python 2.7.5
See https://gist.github.com/123cc5ef533e8a30d24a5ddccdf28f3e for a full test report.

[boegel]

Sure. What would the right osdependencies be in this case? The build suggests You might be able to fix this by running 'sudo yum install libXtst-devel libXt-devel libXrender-devel'.

This sounds like at least:

osdependencies = ['libXtst-devel', 'libXt-devel', 'libXrender-devel']

Ideally also the equivalent package name for non-RedHat based Linux distros are added as alternatives by promoting the single string value to a tuple with alternative package names, but I'm not sure that's worth the effort here (is anyone brave enough to use a non RHEL-based distro on POWER)?
Maybe @akesandgren knows the equivalents for Ubuntu/Debian though...

[akesandgren]

They are:
libxtst-dev, libxt-dev, and libxrender-dev

[Flamefire]

Ideally also the equivalent package name for non-RedHat based Linux distros are added as alternatives by promoting the single string value to a tuple with alternative package names

So that would be osdependencies = [..., ('libXtst-devel', 'libxtst-dev'), ...] ?

[boegel]

Ideally also the equivalent package name for non-RedHat based Linux distros are added as alternatives by promoting the single string value to a tuple with alternative package names

So that would be osdependencies = [..., ('libXtst-devel', 'libxtst-dev'), ...] ?

Exactly.

[Flamefire]

Ok done. I added the other debian packages too and squashed the commits

[Flamefire]

Test report by @Flamefire
SUCCESS
Build succeeded for 1 out of 1 (1 easyconfigs in this PR)
taurusml8 - Linux RHEL 7.6, 8335-GTX, Python 2.7.5
See https://gist.github.com/964739b18fee9b11ad9a82cfa97f8361 for a full test report.

[boegel]

Going in, thanks @Flamefire!