Note, 9 creating a modulefile, 10 viewing modulefile-specific help – HP XC System 2.x Software User Manual

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ifort/8.0(19):ERROR:102: Tcl command execution failed:

conflict ifort/8.1

In this example, the user attempted to load the

ifort/8.0

modulefile, but after issuing the

command to load the modulefile, an error message occurred indicating a conflict between this
modulefile and the

ifort/8.1

modulefile, which is already loaded.

When a modulefile conflict occurs, unload the conflicting modulefile(s) before loading the new
modulefile. In the above example, you should unload the

ifort/8.0

modulefile before

loading the

ifort/8.1

modulefile. For information about unloading a modulefile, refer to

Section 2.2.7.

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Note

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To avoid problems, it is recommended that you always unload one version of a
modulefile before loading another version.

2.2.9 Creating a Modulefile

If you download or install a software package into a private directory, you can create your own
(private) modulefile for products that you install by using the following general steps:

1.

Create a private modulefiles directory.

2.

Copy an existing modulefile (to use as a template), or copy the software’s corresponding
default modulefile from under

/opt/modules/modulefiles

, into the private

modulefiles directory.

3.

Edit and modify the modulefile accordingly.

4.

Register the private directory with the

module use

command.

A user installing a variant of a product/package already on the system should copy the existing
modulefile for that product to an appropriate name, and edit it accordingly to accommodate
the newly-installed product variant.

A user installing a random product/package should look at the manpages for modulefiles,
examine the existing modulefiles, and create a new modulefile for the product being installed
using existing modulefiles as a template. To view modules manpages, load the

modules

modulefile and then display the

modulefile

manpage:

$ module load modules

$ man modulefile

Users should also read the manpages for modules so that they know how to create a directory for
their private modulefiles and how to use the

module use <dirname>

module command to

use their private modules.

2.2.10 Viewing Modulefile-Specific Help

You can view help information for any of the modulefiles on the HP XC system. For example,
to access modulefile-specific help information for TotalView, issue the

module help

command as follows:

$ module help totalview

----------- Module Specific Help for ’totalview’ -----------------

This loads the TotalView environment.

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