Re: Exit from Module load without actually loading

[Lloyd C. C. <lc...@po...>]

Once upon a time (like on Aug 10, 2001), Scott Gaskins wrote:
> But what I want is some more elegant and meaningful message like:
>   # module load apps/verilint
>   Note: The module 'apps/verilint' is not available for Linux.
> 
> So currently I have hacked up lots of 'dummy' modules that match most of
> the modules in our AIX modulefiles directory but really are symbolic links
> back to a single module file called 'notavail'.  In the second example
> above, I use a symlink from modulefiles/apps/verilint ->

What I have been doing is to use a single modulefile directory shared
among all the platforms that we support.  The modules have specific
instructions based on the OS detected.  These are selected via a
switch statement such as the following:

#--------------------------------------------------------------------------
set os [join [list [uname sysname] [uname release]]]
switch -glob $os {
   "SunOS 5.*" {
      # SunOS 5.x specific stuff
   }
   "SunOS 4.*" {
      # SunOS 4.x specific stuff
   }
   "HP-UX B.10*" -
   "Linux*" -
   "AIX*"   -
   "HP-UX*" {
      append-path PATH $env(EXAMPLE)/bin
      append-path LM_LICENSE_FILE 1700@lic-serv

      # Common stuff
      common_proc
   }
}