HI Alberto, On Tuesday, April 4, 2017 at 10:58:39 PM UTC+2, Alberto Salvadori wrote: > > Sorry, I am a bit confused. > > "you need to make sure that building mpich is set to false." > - where I can set "building mpich" to false? Shall I edit a file > ~/.spack/packages.yaml that BTW currently I do not have? > - if so, would this be OK? > > *spack providers mpi* > > * intel-parallel-studio@cluster:+mpi mpich@1: mpich@3: mvapich2@1.9 > mvapich2@2.0: openmpi@1.6.5 openmpi@1.7.5: openmpi@2.0.0: spectrum-mpi* > > openmpi: > version: [2.0.0] > paths: > openmpi@2.0.0%gcc@6.2.0: ...SOMEPATH.../m/mpich/3.2/gcc/6.2.0/bin ( the > latter is the directory where mpic++ executable is ) > buildable: False > > it's almost correct, you need to provide a path to the prefix, i.e. without `bin`. In other words, it's a path to the externally provided MPI package, not to the MPI compiler wrappers.
> "You need to run something like spack install@dealii ^mpich %gcc@6.2" > - sorry, I cannot understand this. I know I am bothering, but can you > please explain this a bit further? > please have a look at this short presentation https://tgamblin.github.io/files/Gamblin-Spack-SC15-Talk.pdf Essentially it's about adding extra constrains to what you want to build. If you are a single user, those are generally easier to be added in the packages.yaml file as opposed to the command line. 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.