[petsc-dev] error in Jenkins but not nightly

[Smith, Barry F.]

> On Jun 10, 2019, at 4:33 PM, Balay, Satish <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
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> now configure needs to know and support full spack build and query all the dependency info from spack..

  We could have some test cases where PETSc is also built by spack, which presumably works and would also test petsc-spack

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> For now - I'll try out a simpler model [i.e manually rebuild as needed]

  Not for long you don't, we have better things to do with your time.

> 
> Satish
> 
> On Mon, 10 Jun 2019, Smith, Barry F. via petsc-dev wrote:
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>>  That seems ok. We could also overload --download-mpich=spack for anal people like me :-)
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>>  Somehow we also need to let configure know where the spack configuration is. 
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>>> On Jun 10, 2019, at 4:21 PM, Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:
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>>> "Smith, Barry F." <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> writes:
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>>>> Yes, spack could be used to do this. I guess essentially Buildsystem would issues commands to spack on each "prebuilt" package each time it runs in test mode (using the URL in the package file?)  and after the first time spack would ignore the commands since it already had the version ready. I could use this on my machine also. 
>>>> 
>>>> Barry
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>>>> --spack-mpich etc ?
>>> 
>>> Would --with-mpich=spack be confusing?
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