One of the big enhancements in EasyBuild v5 is the support for starting an interactive shell to debug failed builds
by simply running the auto-generated cmd.sh script.
We would all prefer that no installation ever fails, but there will be times when they do.
The new interactive shell feature provides a way to explore the build environment and debug the failure.
EasyBuild v5.1.0 was released on 26 May 2025.
This version includes a couple of changes and enhancements we want to briefly highlight in this blog post.
For a detailed overview of all changes included in EasyBuild v5.1.0, see the release notes.
This first blog post reports on the 10th EasyBuild User Meeting (EUM'25), which took place 25-27 March 2025 at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) in Germany.
Slides of all talks are available here, recordings via YouTube.