[Debichem-devel] scalapack 2.0 now in experimental

[Drew Parsons]

Hi Debichem team,

I've uploaded nmus to remove the libblacs-mpi-dev dependency in
    elpa
    espresso
    cp2k (it had an undeclared dependency on blacs, satisfied indirectly
    	    by libscalapack-mpi-dev)

(I also updated freefem++)

I made a typo in the changelog for elpa 2016.05.001-4.1, I meant 
"BLACS is now included" not "BLACS is not included". Please correct it
when you fold the nmu into your elpa repo.

I've also filed bug reports for nwchem.

That should be all the BLACS clients, unless there are any other
undeclared dependencies.  SCALAPACK clients should rebuild against
scalapack2 without drama (at most they might need a path updated for
multiarch libs).

Cheers,
Drew


On Sun, 2017-09-10 at 02:14 +0800, Drew Parsons wrote:
> The scalapack 2 transition is now live, uploaded to unstable.
> 
> Drew
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2017-07-20 at 11:05 +0200, Graham Inggs wrote:
> > Hi Drew
> > 
> > On 19/07/2017 17:06, Drew Parsons wrote:
> > > scalapack 2.0 is now available in experimental.  It's quite a big
> > > transition (absorbing blacs, most notably) so we'll want to test
> > > dependent packages before dropping it into unstable.  We need to
> > > check
> > > the transition from blacs to scalapack is smooth.
> > > 
> > > Can you tell us (or commit to the scalapack git directly) if we
> > > need
> > > any tweaks to keep elpa, c2pk and espresso happy?
> > > 
> > > scalapack now builds with cmake and we may want to change the way
> > > we
> > > install its cmake scripts. pkg-config also.  We've built both
> > > openmpi
> > > and mpich versions.
> > 
> > Thanks for your work on this!
> > 
> > I plan to enable scalapack support in gpaw soon (it requires >=
> > 2.0.1) 
> > and will let you know if any tweaks are required.
> > 
> > Regards
> > Graham