module: command not found

Question

I'm attempting to load several modules for building a library on Linux but am told that the command 'module' doesn't exist. I've Googled around and discovered that the solution was to source a directory called "module" which I am unable to locate despite extensive searching.

I'm not quite sure what I should and any help would be appreciated (it might help to know that the makefile I'm working with uses csh while my default shell is bash). Thanks!

Answer 1

I tried to reproduce it and it turns out that for me sourcing

source /etc/profile.d/modules.sh

in th .sh script helps for bash and similar. For csh and tcsh, you have to add

source /etc/profile.d/modules.csh

to the script. Note, that this line must come first and then the

module load foo

line.

Answer 2

I think that you have to put this in your script to define the module command:

module () {
    eval `/usr/bin/modulecmd bash $*`
}