0.9 Alpha Release, June 2022

Description

Fab analyses and builds Fortran & C projects. Builds are configured in Python using ready-made, or custom, builds steps.

This release of fab includes:

• pre-process, compile, link
• dependency analysis
  • sub tree extraction
  • multiple executables per run
• multiprocessing
• source filtering
• per-path flags
• custom build steps
• metrics
• config as code
• sensible defaults - minimal config

Fab does not yet include:

• incremental builds
• zero config

Successes

This release of Fab includes configs that build the following projects, on the VDI with gfortran:

• JULES 6.2 & 6.3
• GCOM 7.5 & 7.6
• UM 12.1 & 12.2
• LFRic subprojects
  • gungho
  • meshtools
  • atm

Usage

Fab can be installed with pip install sci-fab.

To use Fab at The Met Office, we need to set up a Linux environment with the necessary compilers etc. We currently do this with the commands:

module use /data/users/lfric/modules/modulefiles.rhel7
module load environment/lfric/gnu
conda activate sci-fab

with the Conda environment defined here.

Links

• Early documentation