Try using Ubuntu's compiler (gcc5.4, make sure u install gfortran). I successfully run the full dealii suite on ubuntu16.04 a few weeks back and had zero issues with Spack.
Binutil issue with Spack's build GCC should probably be reported on Spack's github issues page. Regards, Denis -- The deal.II project is located at http://www.dealii.org/ For mailing list/forum options, see https://groups.google.com/d/forum/dealii?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "deal.II User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dealii+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
