Telcon: 2019 06 13

Attendees

Recently-merged PRs of interest
- (Adam J. Stewart) Add more header file extensions to header file finding logic: https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/11600
- (Massimiliano Culpo) Compiler search now limits process generation to limit resource usage: https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/10190
- (Chuck Atkins) Improved/added C std flag support for Cray, PGI, and Intel compilers: https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/11635
- For an already-installed package X, you can specify X as a dependency with spack install foo ^/<hash-of-X> and the build dependencies of X will not constrain the concretization: https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/11594
- Fix recursive module find when using an upstream Spack instance: https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/11304
- (Tamara Dahlgren) Allow packages to reference the staging area for the install in any function (previously this was not supported for e.g. setup_environment): https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/11528
TBD: whatever anyone wants to discuss
- (@chissg) Spack Work Items document updated to SpackWorkItems-0.5.pdf.
- There are a few points where we don't flush buffers when raising an exception, and in those cases the logfiles we generate can "lose" the last remaining bytes in the buffer (often information that is very relevant to the error!): https://github.com/spack/spack/issues/11699