Merge pull request #3309 from terjekv/osdeps_constants

Constants for osdependecies.

Author: boegel

easybuild/framework/easyconfig/constants.py

@@ -51,4 +51,13 @@
     'OS_VERSION': (get_os_version(), "System version"),
     'SYS_PYTHON_VERSION': (platform.python_version(), "System Python version (platform.python_version())"),
     'SYSTEM': ({'name': 'system', 'version': 'system'}, "System toolchain"),
+
+    'OS_PKG_IBVERBS_DEV': (('libibverbs-dev', 'libibverbs-devel', 'rdma-core-devel'),
+                           "OS packages providing ibverbs/infiniband development support"),
+    'OS_PKG_OPENSSL_BIN': (('openssl'),
+                           "OS packages providing the openSSL binary"),
+    'OS_PKG_OPENSSL_LIB': (('libssl', 'libopenssl'),
+                           "OS packages providing openSSL libraries"),
+    'OS_PKG_OPENSSL_DEV': (('openssl-devel', 'libssl-dev', 'libopenssl-devel'),
+                           "OS packages providing openSSL developement support"),
 }

test/framework/easyconfigparser.py

@@ -180,11 +180,13 @@ def test_easyconfig_constants(self):
         system_constant = constants.pop('SYSTEM')
         self.assertEqual(system_constant, {'name': 'system', 'version': 'system'})
 
-        # make sure both keys and values are only strings
+        # make sure both keys and values are of appropriate types
         for constant_name in constants:
             self.assertTrue(isinstance(constant_name, string_type), "Constant name %s is a string" % constant_name)
             val = constants[constant_name]
-            self.assertTrue(isinstance(val, (string_type, dict)), "Constant value %s is a string or dict" % val)
+            fail_msg = "The constant %s should have an acceptable type, found %s (%s)" % (constant_name,
+                                                                                          type(val), str(val))
+            self.assertTrue(isinstance(val, (string_type, dict, tuple)), fail_msg)
 
         # check a couple of randomly picked constant values
         self.assertEqual(constants['SOURCE_TAR_GZ'], '%(name)s-%(version)s.tar.gz')