Telcon: 2020 05 21

Attendees

Recently-merged PRs of interest
- (Greg) allow packages to default to non-buildable: https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/16735
- (Greg) allow usage of view projection format specification to describe naming/layout scheme of modules: https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/16629
- (Greg) filter system paths from RPATHs for CMake-based packages: https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/16612
- (Greg) string formatting of specs now avoids printing ~variant (i.e. boolean variants that are "off"), specifically with a space in front, to avoid issues with some shells and the ~ character: https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/16462
- (Greg) Handling Cray platform detection after module purge: https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/12989
- spack external find command which automatically makes Spack aware of system installations of some packages: https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/15158
Bazel detects additional include directories introduced by Spack and raises an error - how to address this?
Bazel for now "needs" Java 1.8, with later Java it fails with OOM. Turns out this is actually another issue (related to process usage) that is misinterpreted.
- Depending on ulimit they may not hit the problem at all