Telcon: 2024 05 01

Wednesday May 1st, 9am PT (UTC -7:00)

(This week the meeting is for Q&A, there are no pre-planned topics)

Dom: using new oneapi with old ifort
- py-* packages using meson don't work with it
- See: https://github.com/spack/spack/issues/43494
- Peter: I think we can update py-* packages using meson to auto-insert this -diag... flag
  - I self-assigned
Yang: installing emacs with gcc%4.8.5
- (Building with gcc@13 has an error)
- During build, gcc@13 is being used for some reason though
- Peter: can you build spack install gcc languages=c,c++,fortran,jit
  - Yang: how can users distinguish this?
    - Had a user who had trouble with the jit-enabled one
    - Peter: you could encode the jit support into the version, e.g. call it gcc@13.2.0.jit in compilers.yaml
- More on the problem
  - use %gcc
  - but some package has an explicit dependency on llvm (not as a compiler)
  - For the lmod hierarchy generated by spack, if you module load emacs, it will try to auto-swap llvm for gcc
Yang: R installation issue
- I have to remove the .build_directory property of the R package for the installation to succeed
- (will revisit: we ran this again during the meeting and didn't seem to reproduce the error, but it might depend on what variants are set for R)

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