<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit;clear:both;color:rgb(36,39,41)">The <a href="https://slurm.schedmd.com/add.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0,100,189)">SchedMD docs for adding a plugin</a> describe adding source code, Makefiles, and other modifications for a new plugin to a git branch in the source tree. This makes it sound like I would have to rebuild and reinstall slurm in order to use a new plugin that I create. This would make for long iterations for developing a new plugin.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit;clear:both;color:rgb(36,39,41)">My slurm installation on Ubuntu 18 has the existing plugin binaries (.a, .la, .so) in <code style="margin:0px;padding:1px 5px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,"Lucida Console","Liberation Mono","DejaVu Sans Mono","Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","Courier New",monospace,sans-serif;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit;background-color:rgb(239,240,241);white-space:pre-wrap">/usr/local/lib/slurm</code>. Can I install a new plugin by copying the binaries for the new plugin into this directory (maybe with some configuration modifications)? The SchedMD docs don't mention anything about installing a new plugin into an existing slurm installation, or if it's even possible.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit;clear:both;color:rgb(36,39,41)">Thanks.</p></div>