[Users] Building on stampede

[Ian Hinder]

On 4 Nov 2014, at 23:30, Roland Haas <roland.haas at physics.gatech.edu> wrote:

> Hello Ian,
> 
>> Did something get forgotten in the latest BLAS/LAPACK/OpenBLAS changes?
> It works for me with a completely vanilla checkout of trunk from
> yesterday. This may be a silly question, but did you check OpenBLAS is
> actually present in your arrangment?

That was indeed the problem.  I was confused because Cactus didn't tell me that OpenBLAS was missing, at least if it did, it was lost in all the other output.  The message I saw was that no thorn provided those capabilities.  I think if a thorn is missing, this should be caught very early on, and a clear error message should be given.  There's no point in building all the other libraries, or complaining about the missing dependencies, if a thorn is not even present.

While investigating this, I was also misled by the "DISABLED" tag in the thornlist.  I forgot that simfactory enables some of these thorns on some machines.  Maybe we need to add a comment to the thornlist next to all the disabled thorns, saying "This thorn may be enabled by simfactory on some machines".

-- 
Ian Hinder
http://numrel.aei.mpg.de/people/hinder

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