Telcon: 2023 02 15

Held Wednesday February 15th, 9am PT

Attendees

• Peter Scheibel (host)
• Mark Krentel
• Phil Regier
• Chris Green
• Richarda Butler
• Massimiliano Culpo

Agenda

• Mark: #35450 (iconv/libintl consistency)
  • See: https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/35450
  • krb5 package build fails because it wants libintel_gettext (at least in some context)
  • Peter: wonder if using spec['gettext'].libs.search_flags would be useful
    • i.e. dependents could retrieve the gettext libraries and gettext returns the relevant ones
    • Massimiliano: https://spack-tutorial.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial_advanced_packaging.html#retrieving-library-information
  • Mark: could it be a variant?
    • Chris: variants are for user choices, whereas libintl support is decided entirely by the system
      • Variants are attractive for distinguishing this but generally aren't used in this way (i.e. for choices that are entirely decided by the build system and never by the user)