Telcon: 2022 12 21

Held Wednesday December 21st, 9am PT

(This will be just Q&A - there are no pre-planned general Spack discussion items)

(Mark) Elfutils PR which altered gettext
- libintl may be built by Spack or part of libc (e.g. gnulibc always has it)
- See 34541
- You can have a libintl variant on gettext
- Possibility (suggested in 34541): define a setup_dependent_package function which assigns a property called libintl_link_link
(Raghu) Is mirror missing some things?
- Currently yes: there was a multi-month period where updates didn't make it to the mirror (now fixed)
- The mirror update script only runs once weekly
- For now, if you pin Spack to be at least a week old, then all things that could be pulled from the cache should be
  - Note: there are some things that don't get placed in the mirror: e.g. the develop branch of packages that pull from a git repo, so even when the mirror covers everything it can, there are some resources it cannot keep
Wileam: want to be able to run "spack test" on any CUDA package
- Or rather run tests for a package to check that CUDA support is enabled
- @tldahlgren is working on improving the testing
Wileam: ==> Warning: Using the old Spec.format method. This method was deprecated in Spack v0.15 and will be removed in Spack v0.20
- See: 34624
  - It looks like this is pulling a set of values that may not all be valid format strings. The PR description will be updated and we will revisit.

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