[CMake] Cmake with Cray Fortran

[Eric Noulard]

2011/3/5 Tim Gallagher <tim.gallagher at gatech.edu>:
> It's not an option to do a global install. These are US government owned clusters. I asked them if they could install it and they won't for awhile -- they tend to remain a few versions back on everything until they run extensive tests on new versions.

Conservative versioning is usually a safe approach but
I thought that thanks to the cray "module" system one could have
several versions installed.

At the time I was using Cray machines (10+ year ago :-]) the default
"active" software were
lagging 1 or 2 versions behind just with the same reason as yours,
however a user could
"module switch <don't remember the syntax>" in order to change default
version to something
more bleeding edge "at his own risk".

The bleeding edge software were globally installed but they were not
the default active version.

The risk for the average user was minimal because he had to
explicitely switch version.
At that time the sys. admin. team was simply refusing to answer
support request for
"bleeding edge" version, however one could use it.

I thought this small history may be inspiring for your case.
That said if you have no choice then each user should use a locally
install CMake,
it's easy to do.

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Erk
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