Telcon: 2017 11 02

Attendees

• Mario Melara
• Christoph Junghans
• Ben B.
• Mark Miller
• Greg B.

Announcements

PRs merged:

• spack install --overwrite can reinstall a package in place (including when it has dependents): https://github.com/LLNL/spack/pull/5384
• Only use XCode clang wrappers for packages that set use_xcode=True: https://github.com/LLNL/spack/pull/6077
• You can call spack blame on Spack packages and spack core files now: https://github.com/LLNL/spack/pull/5793
• spack -d install... used to generate a log of all compiler wrapper invocations, which is now restored: https://github.com/LLNL/spack/pull/5837

New Issues of note:

• Packages depending on bzip/tar can run into errors when decompressing resources/source-code
  • https://github.com/LLNL/spack/issues/5946
  • https://github.com/LLNL/spack/pull/5544

Discussion

• Christoph: some packages only make static libs but you want shared libs. It would be good to add an option to generate them
  • https://github.com/LLNL/spack/pull/6092
  • Ben: how do you know that all the symbols are built properly?
  • Ben: how well does this generalize? e.g. if a package has 5 static libs. Also doesn't apply to Windows
• Christoph: had a pull request for ccache: https://github.com/LLNL/spack/pull/3761
  • could use a test (?)
  • had a merge conflict (now resolved)