[Debichem-devel] disabling PeIGS in libglobalarrays-dev

[Michael Banck]

Hi Drew,

On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 12:22:25PM +0800, Drew Parsons wrote:
> Hi Michael, the ga build has been missing symbols:
> 
>    ./.libs/libga.a(ga_diag.o): In function `gai_diag_std_':
>    ga_diag.F:(.text+0xc65): undefined reference to `fmemreq_'
>    ga_diag.F:(.text+0xecd): undefined reference to `pdspev_'
> 
> I raised the issue upstream at https://github.com/GlobalArrays/ga/issues/154
> 
> Jeff explained that these are PeIGS symbols, provided by nwchem.  It hasn't
> been causing problems in practice since nwchem is the only program currently
> using GA.
> 
> Nevertheless Jeff and his upstream coauthors recommend disabling PeIGS in GA
> to avoid the problem, especially since scalapack is available for GA anyway.
> 
> You enabled PeIGS just in the previous Debian release, so I wanted to let
> you comment. Should we go ahead and disable peigs, or keep it enabled all
> the same?

Unfortunatey, it's been a year and I don't remember why I enabled it.
So I suggest you/we disable it and see whether NWChem still builds/runs
fine.


Michael