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packages.yaml: perl: should CPAN variant be disabled? #23

Closed harshula closed 3 months ago

harshula commented 10 months ago

The current Perl spec is:

  perl:
    externals:
    - spec: perl@5.26.3~cpanm+shared+threads
      prefix: /usr
    buildable: false

It originates from:

commit 8b156bf85bdf96398eff98589cd510d8e64e6930
Author: Aidan Heerdegen <aidan.heerdegen@anu.edu.au>
Date:   Mon Oct 31 15:40:33 2022 +1100

    Initial commit of packages.yaml config file

I found that Spack defaults to:

0.19.x: perl@5.35.0+cpanm+shared+threads
0.20.3: perl@5.36.0+cpanm+open+shared+threads
0.21.1: perl@5.38.0+cpanm+opcode+open+shared+threads

openmpi's SPD depends on default perl:

    depends_on("perl", type="build")

We should confirm whether there is a good reason to use a spec with ~cpanm (i.e. cpanm disabled).

harshula commented 3 months ago

Spack v0.22.1 defaults to:

v0.22.1: perl@5.26.3+cpanm+opcode+open+shared+threads
harshula commented 3 months ago

Hi @aidanheerdegen , Spack v0.22 Docker and Gadi builds of ACCESS-OM2 completed successfully with the following change https://github.com/ACCESS-NRI/spack-config/compare/main...development . I'm comfortable removing explicit variants in the perl spec in packages.yaml.