now configure needs to know and support full spack build and query all the 
dependency info from spack..

For now - I'll try out a simpler model [i.e manually rebuild as needed]

Satish

On Mon, 10 Jun 2019, Smith, Barry F. via petsc-dev wrote:

>   That seems ok. We could also overload --download-mpich=spack for anal 
> people like me :-)
> 
>   Somehow we also need to let configure know where the spack configuration 
> is. 
> 
> > On Jun 10, 2019, at 4:21 PM, Jed Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > "Smith, Barry F." <[email protected]> writes:
> > 
> >> Yes, spack could be used to do this. I guess essentially Buildsystem would 
> >> issues commands to spack on each "prebuilt" package each time it runs in 
> >> test mode (using the URL in the package file?)  and after the first time 
> >> spack would ignore the commands since it already had the version ready. I 
> >> could use this on my machine also. 
> >> 
> >>  Barry
> >> 
> >> --spack-mpich etc ?
> > 
> > Would --with-mpich=spack be confusing?
> 

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