Installation with spack - no access to adol-c

Konrad Simon

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Mar 17, 2020, 6:28:07 AM3/17/20

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Hi all,

A colleague and myself had problems to install dealii 9.1.1 via spack.

Quick question: Did anyone have problems to install deal.ii via spack lately? I see that it depends on the development version of adol-c but this one requires a gitlab account and access to adol-c. Does deal.ii v9.1.1 really depend on the development version of adol-c? Other versions <= 2.6.3 are on github.

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Konrad

Jean-Paul Pelteret

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Mar 17, 2020, 5:58:48 PM3/17/20

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Hi Konrad,

Yes, we need some version of ADOL-C greater than 2.6.3, as we upstreamed some required patches to the project. I installed deal.II using Spack a few weeks ago, and didn’t run into any difficulty... but I see that the Gitlab project is indeed locked down, which is a bit surprising. There’s a new, active repo on github (https://github.com/coin-or/ADOL-C), so maybe they’ve migrated the project there.

They’ve also made several releases since the Spack package was last updated (https://www.coin-or.org/download/source/ADOL-C/). This is good, because you can actually get Spack to pull one of these updated versions for you (if you’re willing to do the download without checksumming). The syntax for that would be something like

spack install dea...@9.1.1+adol-c ^ado...@2.7.2

I hope that this helps you. I’ll try to remember to update the Spack package in the near future.

Best,

Jean-Paul

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Krishnakumar Gopalakrishnan

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Mar 17, 2020, 6:09:10 PM3/17/20

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I did a spack-based install of deal.ii on a 64-bit Linux machine as well as on a macbook pro, and didn't encounter any issues.

Krishna

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Konrad Simon

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Mar 18, 2020, 4:21:57 AM3/18/20

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Jean-Paul, thanks a lot. Works! :-)

Cheers,
Konrad

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