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? >
