to avoid deleting spack submodule when updating persistent installations

Eric Müller authored 2 months ago and Eleni Mathioulaki committed 1 month ago

suite-sparse dropped tbb support a long time ago… since 5.11.0:
https://github.com/DrTimothyAldenDavis/SuiteSparse/issues/110

This is not how this should be done in the end… we should use mktemp
to generate unique and fresh temp files.
For now this restores functionality to build from r/o folders.

Changes in CI file allow to use existing spack deployments w/o cache.

Eric Müller authored 3 months ago and Eleni Mathioulaki committed 2 months ago

This introduces a submodule for yashchiki.

We need to check if the flexibility of the script is actually needed.
(And how this ever could have worked with a moving target spack ;).)

Lia Domide authored 3 months ago and Eleni Mathioulaki committed 3 months ago

Pinned dependency on vtk@9.2.6 (that should be avoided anyway) conflicts with gcc@13. vtk@9 was selected as a lower limit to avoid using older versions since compatibility has not been tested.