Telcon: 2020 03 26

Attendees

• Peter Scheibel (host)
• Patrick Gartung
• Massimiliano Culpo
• Chris Green

Agenda

• (1-1:30pm) Creating a test package for testing binary caches
  • (Patrick) Make an install tarball: https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/15687
    • 3 packages, all CMake
    • Works on Desktop (Ubuntu Xenial)
    • On Travis it isn't working
      • See: https://travis-ci.org/github/spack/spack/jobs/667416191?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=github_status
    • The tests need to check installing to different directory layouts
      • Instantiating the directory layout may need some work
    • The tests in this PR require pre-made binaries
      • Since the input packages for the tests use CMake, this is required to avoid building CMake
      • We don't need packages that use CMake to exercise binary caching
  • What challenges exist now/what do the tests need to check
    • Relocation of RPATHs
    • (Not a big deal) debug symbols referring to source
    • TCL: this package compiles paths into the binary
    • perl: the relocation logic padded with null bytes, perl checks for this and fails
• Recently-merged PRs of general interest
  • (TODO: fill this in by 3/26)