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+##
+# Copyright 2015-2015 Bart Oldeman
+#
+# This file is triple-licensed under GPLv2 (see below), MIT, and
+# BSD three-clause licenses.
+#
+# This file is part of EasyBuild,
+# originally created by the HPC team of Ghent University (http://ugent.be/hpc/en),
+# with support of Ghent University (http://ugent.be/hpc),
+# the Flemish Supercomputer Centre (VSC) (https://vscentrum.be/nl/en),
+# the Hercules foundation (http://www.herculesstichting.be/in_English)
+# and the Department of Economy, Science and Innovation (EWI) (http://www.ewi-vlaanderen.be/en).
+#
+# http://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild
+#
+# EasyBuild is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation v2.
+#
+# EasyBuild is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with EasyBuild.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+##
+"""
+EasyBuild support for installing PGI compilers, implemented as an easyblock
+
+@author: Bart Oldeman (McGill University, Calcul Quebec, Compute Canada)
+"""
+import os
+import fileinput
+import re
+import sys
+
+from easybuild.framework.easyblock import EasyBlock
+from easybuild.tools.build_log import EasyBuildError
+from easybuild.tools.run import run_cmd
+
+class EB_pgi(EasyBlock):
+    """
+    Support for installing the PGI compilers
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        """Easyblock constructor, define custom class variables specific to PGI."""
+        super(EB_pgi, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
+        if not self.cfg['license_file']:
+            self.cfg['license_file'] = 'UNKNOWN'
+        self.install_subdir = os.path.join('linux86-64', self.version)
+
+    def configure_step(self):
+        """
+        Dummy configure method, just a license check
+        """
+        if not os.path.exists(self.cfg['license_file']):
+            raise EasyBuildError("Non-existing license file specified: %s", self.cfg['license_file'])
+
+    def build_step(self):
+        """
+        Dummy build method: nothing to build
+        """
+        pass
+
+    def install_step(self):
+        """Install by running install command."""
+
+        pgi_env_vars = {
+            'PGI_ACCEPT_EULA': 'accept',
+            'PGI_INSTALL_AMD': 'true',
+            'PGI_INSTALL_DIR': self.installdir,
+            'PGI_INSTALL_JAVA': 'true',
+            'PGI_INSTALL_MANAGED': 'true',
+            'PGI_INSTALL_NVIDIA': 'true',
+            'PGI_SILENT': 'true',
+            }
+        cmd = "%s ./install" % ' '.join(['%s=%s' % x for x in sorted(pgi_env_vars.items())])
+        run_cmd(cmd, log_all=True, simple=True)
+
+        # make sure localrc uses GCC in PATH, not always the system GCC, and does not use a system g77 but gfortran
+        install_abs_subdir = os.path.join(self.installdir, self.install_subdir)
+        filename = os.path.join(install_abs_subdir, "bin", "makelocalrc")
+        for line in fileinput.input(filename, inplace='1', backup='.orig'):
+            line = re.sub(r"^PATH=/", r"#PATH=/", line)
+            sys.stdout.write(line)
+
+        cmd = "%s -x %s -g77 /" % (filename, install_abs_subdir)
+        run_cmd(cmd, log_all=True, simple=True)
+
+    def sanity_check_step(self):
+        """Custom sanity check for PGI"""
+        prefix = self.install_subdir
+        custom_paths = {
+                        'files': [os.path.join(prefix, "bin", "pgcc")],
+                        'dirs': [os.path.join(prefix, "bin"), os.path.join(prefix, "lib"),
+                                 os.path.join(prefix, "include"), os.path.join(prefix, "man")]
+                       }
+        super(EB_pgi, self).sanity_check_step(custom_paths=custom_paths)
+
+    def make_module_req_guess(self):
+        """Prefix subdirectories in PGI install directory considered for environment variables defined in module file."""
+        dirs = super(EB_pgi, self).make_module_req_guess()
+        for key in dirs:
+            dirs[key] = [os.path.join(self.install_subdir, d) for d in dirs[key]]
+        return dirs
+
+    def make_module_extra(self):
+        """Add environment variables LM_LICENSE_FILE and PGI for license file and PGI location"""
+        txt = super(EB_pgi, self).make_module_extra()
+        txt += self.module_generator.prepend_paths('LM_LICENSE_FILE', [self.cfg['license_file']], allow_abs=True)
+        txt += self.module_generator.set_environment('PGI', self.installdir)
+        return txt