Hi Marco,

I've open a PR in Spack (https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/32079) that 
backports the patches that we added to the development version to 9.4. Feel 
free to try it and provide some feedback as to whether or not it works for 
you.

Best,
Jean-Paul

On Thursday, August 11, 2022 at 7:50:46 AM UTC+2 marco....@colosso.nl wrote:

> Hi Daniel and Timo,
>
> Thanks for the feedback. The bug indeed seems to be the problem, since the 
> spack HDF5 package is definitely build with MPI support. I first thought it 
> was because by default spack doesn't seem to build HDF5 with C++ support, 
> but that did not help (of course now I know why).
>
> Building without HDF5 would be an option for me for the short term, but I 
> will first try to see if I can get it working.
>
> Again, I am pretty impressed by the spack. It works like a charm and it 
> provides a lot of flexibility.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Marco
>
> On Tuesday, August 9, 2022 at 7:27:38 PM UTC+2 Timo Heister wrote:
>
>> Your issue might be related to the bug 
>> https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/14065 (see the discussion and 
>> the linked PR that should solve the problem for deal.II master, but not 9.4)
>>
>> On Tuesday, August 9, 2022 at 1:23:55 PM UTC-4 d.arnd...@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>> Marco,
>>>
>>> It appears that
>>>
>>> -- Insufficient hdf5 installation found: hdf5 has to be configured with 
>>> MPI support.
>>>
>>> is the problem. HDF5 has not been compiled with MPI support. Thus, you 
>>> can either try to make sure that HDF5 is built with MPI support or, in case 
>>> you are not going to use HDF5 anyway, just disable the dependency.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Daniel
>>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 7:41 AM Marco Nawijn <marco....@colosso.nl> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear All,
>>>>
>>>> I run into an issue when trying to install dealii using spack. The 
>>>> error is as follows:
>>>>
>>>>   Could not find the hdf5 library!
>>>>
>>>>   Insufficient hdf5 installation found!
>>>>
>>>>   hdf5 has to be configured with MPI support.
>>>>
>>>>   Please ensure that a suitable hdf5 library is installed on your 
>>>> computer.
>>>>
>>>>   If the library is not at a default location, either provide some 
>>>> hints for
>>>>   autodetection,
>>>>
>>>> A complete log and additional information is provided in the two 
>>>> attachments.
>>>> I am a little lost at the moment because as far as I can tell, the 
>>>> installation process finds the correct HDF5 folder (I checked the tags). 
>>>> In 
>>>> addition, I installed HDF5 using spack with MPI, C++ and Fortran support 
>>>> (I 
>>>> added the output of `tree` to the attachment). 
>>>>
>>>> I am a little at loss now, because I don't know what dealii is exactly 
>>>> missing from the HDF5 installation.
>>>>
>>>> The system is just a laptop, so nothing cluster like.
>>>>
>>>> Just as a side note. I am pretty impressed with the easy and 
>>>> flexibility of spack. All other dependencies installed without a hitch 
>>>> (petsc, sundials, trilinios etc.).
>>>>
>>>> Does anybody have an idea of what the problem is?
>>>>
>>>> Any help is highly appreciated. 
>>>>
>>>> Marco
>>>> P.S. I am a complete novice with dealii, but otherwise comfortable in 
>>>> the linux eco-system.
>>>>
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