Telcon: 2019 02 28

Attendees

• Peter Scheibel (host)
• Daniel Topa
• Patrick Gartung
• Greg Becker
• David N.

Discussion Topics

• Recently-merged PRs
  • (Adam J. Stewart) Fix Make test on systems using languages other than English: https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/10499
  • (Phil Carns) Allow running setup-env.sh in a script: https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/9712
  • (Massimiliano Culpo) Allow packages to customize include directories: https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/10623
  • (Chris Green) Allow secondary CMake generators: https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/9324
  • (Adam J. Stewart) All Python dependencies are now optional: https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/10335
    • Default options generally install same dependencies as before
    • Depending on use case, you may be able to deactivate some dependencies
• Greg Becker: what defaults to use when automatically building compilers
  • If you build foo %gcc and you don't have gcc on your system, should Spack install it?
  • Should it do this by default?
  • Perhaps not: installing compilers is expensive
  • Default=true would be good for environments: where you want to install some compilers and then build a bunch of packages with those compilers. Environments could be modified to bootstrap the compiler setup, but auto-installing the compilers would be useful.
• Dan Topa: spack compiler find should add a module to the compilers.yaml config