[Debichem-devel] Please review my changes to elpa package

[Graham Inggs]

Hi Michael

On 14/06/2015 16:30, Michael Banck wrote:
> Ok, will do.

Thanks for the upload!

I see there was a build failure on s390x because of my new symbols file.
Is there any rush to fix that in a 2013.11.008-4 upload, or can we fix 
that in 2015.05.001-1?

> The main question is whether to enable the ELPA kernels on base builds -
> i.e. will a SSE ELPA kernel built on my notebook run on my other
> noteboook with a different amd64 CPU?

I have access to various Opterons and Xeons from about 8 years old to 
current.
We can test builds on the Ubuntu PPA builders.

> In order to get it to build I had to rename BLACS_LIBS to
> SCALAPACK_LDFLAGS (besides the SONAME change from 0 to 3).
I fixed that by modifying blacs-lib.patch slightly:

--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -365,7 +365,7 @@
    done

    if test x"${blacs_in_scalapack}" = x"no"; then
-    LIBS="${old_LIBS}"
+    LIBS="${old_LIBS} $BLACS_LIBS"

      dnl Test for stand-alone blacs
AC_SEARCH_LIBS([bi_f77_init],[mpiblacsF77init],[],[],[-lmpiblacs])

I'll check whether your method still builds on Ubuntu, where they build 
everything with -Wl,--as-needed.
Maybe we should just build with that in Debian too?

Upstream have fixed the issue with fetching the .asc now, so we can 
enable signed tarballs.

Can I start committing changes for 2015.05.001-1?

Regards
Graham