[Debichem-devel] scalapack 2.0 now in experimental

[Drew Parsons]

I nearly missed ga, which had an undeclared dependency on blacs.
I've made the nmu for scalapack2, it now finds pdsyevr.

I notice it searches for ELPA, which could be made available to it 
(I didn't add that change to the nmu).

Drew

On Mon, 2017-09-11 at 12:01 +0800, Drew Parsons wrote:
> 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
> 
>