[INSTALL]: netcdf-c with --enable-logging (in separate env)

[AlexanderRichert-NOAA]

Package name

netcdf-c

Package version/tag

(spack-stack default)

Build options

enable logging

Installation timeframe

Let's install the ufs-weather-model-env global-workflow-env subset of the unified env (plus anything that JCSDA wants) as a chained environment (though a lot of stuff will get rebuilt) on Hera (or somewhere comparably central) after the 1.7.0 release. We can call it, e.g., ue-debug-intel, and optionally add other debug/logging-enabled versions of packages in that environment.

Other information

This will require modifications to the netcdf-c spack recipe: spack/spack#43380

[climbfuji]

It might be good to turn on debugging features for hdf5 and esmf, too

[edwardhartnett]

When logging is turned on in netcdf-c, it also turns on HDF5 error messages, which are verbose and helpful. I don't know of any other logging mechanism in HDF5. I cannot speak for ESMF. Ed

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[climbfuji]

When logging is turned on in netcdf-c, it also turns on HDF5 error messages, which are verbose and helpful. I don't know of any other logging mechanism in HDF5. I cannot speak for ESMF. Ed
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That's good to know, thanks Ed. About ESMF: See https://github.com/JCSDA/spack/blob/4fafe3eadbe330e64423b8ee16c88f8309f48d5b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/esmf/package.py#L78 and https://github.com/JCSDA/spack/blob/4fafe3eadbe330e64423b8ee16c88f8309f48d5b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/esmf/package.py#L256

[climbfuji]

has this been started?

[AlexanderRichert-NOAA]

Yes, I have a PR in for main Spack that is awaiting review: spack/spack#43380

[AlexanderRichert-NOAA]

I'll create the environment as described as part of the 1.8.0 release.

[AlexanderRichert-NOAA]

I created the following environment on Hera, which has netcdf-c and parallelio with logging enabled, esmf and mapl with debug enabled, and a handful of other packages built with CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug: /contrib/spack-stack/spack-stack-1.8.0/envs/emc-debug-intel-2021.5.0/install/modulefiles/Core

[AlexanderRichert-NOAA]

Added to https://github.com/JCSDA/spack-stack/wiki/Extended-list-of-spack%E2%80%90stack-environments

[climbfuji]

Perfect, thanks!