Building NCBI NGS tools (NGS SDK, VDB, SRA Tools) on RHEL 8

I had some trouble building SRA Tools from source on RHEL8. After short message thread on GitHub, I went back and tried again, this time setting the “--relative-build-out-dir” option on configure for all components of the NCBI NGS suite. That fixed it.

My full write-up of the build process is a GitHub gist.

The usefulness of awk in the present day

This anecdote illustrates exactly why scientists should invest some time in learning some of the standard tools of Unix/Linux.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17324122