Telcon: 2023 04 26

Held Wednesday April 26th, 9am PT (UTC -7:00)

Attendees

• Peter Scheibel (host)
• Alex Richert
• Chris Green
• Jonathon Anderson
• Mark Krentel
• Massimiliano Culpo
• Phil Regier
• Tammy Dahlgren

Agenda

This meeting is just Q&A: there are no pre-planned general Spack topics

• Alex: module file paths
  • Use one external mpi
  • Therefore want to exclude the hash from the module name
  • Massimiliano: related: https://spack-tutorial.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial_modules.html#change-module-file-naming
    • This does not resolve the issue
    • Goal: allow a per-package mechanism for customizing the module directory name (exclude the hash)
• Phil: have a Spack install with ~30 packages, where 20 or so of them are external
  • In some cases, spack external find didn't find a package
  • In some cases, it found the package, but it wasn't used
  • Desire: want spack external find to fail if it doesn't find things
    • This would not be possible if you run spack external find without package args
    • We could say spack external find openmpi should fail if it doesn't find openmpi
• Chris: failure building openblas
  • Couldn't locate patch with hash
  • Usually spack clean -m resolves this, but not in this case
  • grep for patch hash through repository gets no hits
  • Sometimes a dependent can apply a patch
  • (will follow up via slack)
• From Chris G.: question re status of https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/35975