Telcon: 2022 07 06

Attendees

• Peter Scheibel (host)
• Tammy Dahlgren
• Richarda Butler
• Massimiliano Culpo
• Wileam Phan
• Mark Krentel
• Kacper Kornet
• Phil Regier

Agenda items

• It's annoying that if you git pull Spack, if a package name changed, you get ==> Error: Package '...' not found. (this includes packages that may not be part of the environment.
  • We should fix this. In the meantime we should create a place to record issues that are being fixed
  • spack clean -m will fix this for now, but that is worth mentioning to people
  • The Slack-general channel is too high-volume
  • See: https://github.com/spack/spack/issues/31453

Possible Agenda items

• (Done) (Mark, Massimiliano) Error: Package 'armpl' not found. after commit that renames armpl to armpl-gcc https://spackpm.slack.com/archives/C5W7NKZJT/p1657097875064619
• (Massimiliano) Continue from https://github.com/spack/spack/wiki/Telcon%3A-2022-06-08: multiple build systems used by one package
• (Matt) if we build an environment, and one package fails, then module files are not generated
  • Want spack module refresh but only to generate module files that haven't been generated yet
• Updating compiler wrapper to strip -Werror (optionally): https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/30284
• (Wileam) Adding fpm as a build system
  • Issue on fpm repo: https://github.com/fortran-lang/fpm/issues/79
• Default action for concretization in environments: https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/29942#issuecomment-1097287194
• Continue from https://github.com/spack/spack/wiki/Telcon%3A-2022-04-06: warning() directive
• (Wileam) Can't bootstrap llvm@13 and @14 if gold is enabled (which is the default behavior) https://github.com/spack/spack/issues/29350
  • Pinpointed issue to external package (binutils carried by OS) based on comment
  • PR drafted: https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/30954
  • Can externals detection be expanded from executables only to arbitrary files (e.g. header or .a/.so library files)?
• How to reorganize the docs?
• Continue from https://github.com/spack/spack/wiki/Telcon%3A-2022-04-13: not in spec syntax