[Users] Meeting minutes for 2015-05-11

[Roland Haas]

Hello all,

> 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.
> * suggestion to instead modify ubuntu.cfg which is the only option list
> affected
> * Peter ran qc0 recenlty will check that the waves are correct
> * Ian Hinder worked on OSX option lists, synchorinizing homebrew and
> macports version
> * Kranc thorns were regenerated
Frank: best to give it a bit more time before you create the release
branches for simfactory. Ubuntu.cfg as in master currently does not
compile for me on a freshly installed 14.04 virtual machine if I install
only the packages listed at the top (assuming the following packages are
installed) in the cfg file. Basically setting HDF5_DIR=/usr fails to
compile since the list does not include libhdf5-dev. Since libhdf5-dev
will fail b/c it will not find the architecture dependent files (and
there are actually possible conflicts between libdhf5-dev and eg
petsc-dev) I took out the HDF5_DIR line which will make it compile if
detection fails.

The alternative is to move libhdf5-dev into the required packages list,
add the /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/hdf5/serial/lib/ to LIBDIRS,
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/hdf5/serial/include to SYS_INC_DIRS and check
that that still compiles. I will try this as well once the one compiling
HDF5 finishes (so that the list of packages that is supposed to make
things faster also works).

I case someone wants to help PLEASE try this on a freshly installed
Ubuntu 14.04 (virtual) machine. Do not try this only on your own
personal workstation/laptop.

In any case, a test compilation is still ongoing and given how long this
takes in a VM this may take a while.

Yours,
Roland

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