[gradsusr] Will grads be in spack?

[Thompson, Matt (GSFC-610.1)[SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC]]

All,

I've been trying to slowly move GMAO's GEOS model's Baselibs to spack. This has involved learning how to make new spack packages, which has been interesting (and not quite fully successful yet, to be honest, but I'm learning!). Now, Baselibs started as an offshoot of Supplibs, so I am learning some useful and perhaps relevant lessons.

Looking at how GrADS is built (which I've never done as the binaries work fine for my needs), the main issue I see at present is figuring out how to build GrADS without the SUPPLIBS being in one place. GEOS inherited this as it expects Baselibs to all be under one place as well. With GEOS I have the "luxury" of knowing its very odd non-standard GNU Make build system and could probably hack it to find spack's libraries without too much trouble, but GEOS relies on fewer libraries than GrADS.

GrADS, though, uses configure. Yay for us builders and it looks like some of the libraries seem exposed to configure (--with-netcdf, etc.) but not all. Does anyone out there have experience building GrADS with --enable-dyn-supplibs? If you've documented how to get GrADS to find and use system libraries, spack might be okay with that (with, say, loooong LDFLAGS, LIBS, CPPFLAGS lines). The only other thought would be finding an autotools hacker who could expose all the supplibs with --with-PKG options.

As an aside, it looks like most of Supplibs is in spack, but not all (g2clib, a few others), so eventually a limited GrADS might be doable, with a nigh-complete build if other Supplibs were ported.

Matt


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On 1/4/19, 2:08 PM, "gradsusr on behalf of Tom Robinson" <gradsusr-bounces at gradsusr.org on behalf of ter at hawaii.edu> wrote:

    I have recently been using spack to install scientific software. It really makes things easy. Is there any plan to add grads to spack? 
    
    -Tom 
    
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