[Users] Meeting minutes for 2015-05-11

[Bruno Coutinho Mundim]

Hi Roland:

On 05/11/2015 05:26 PM, Roland Haas wrote:
> Present were: Ian, Roland, Frank, Jonah, Matt, Steve, Chrstine, Bruno, Peter
> 
> ET release:
> * hwloc issues were sorted out over the weekend
> * HDF5 thorn changes that look for architecture dependent include and
> lib directories will be reverted since the assume that gcc is present.

Actually no, that's not the problem since it checks for gcc
availability. The problem is that those directories are system
directories and we should not add them to the library search path when
configuring a external library thorn. They should be added at the end
of the linking command line, after configuration of all external
libraries are finished, to avoid linking to a system library when
indeed we want to link to the external library shipped with ET (or
already installed elsewhere). For example we might add
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu to HDF5 library search path but other system
libraries might be there and then be picked against our will. Finding
out the host system include and library standard directories and then
adding them at the end of the compilation and linking command lines,
respectively, is a solution that should be worked out after the release.

Cheers,
Bruno.