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Spack is a moving target and receives multiple commits per day. Normally, HPCToolkit will build and run successfully with the latest version of all of its prerequisite packages, but sometimes not. This page covers the current known issues where HPCToolkit fails to build with the latest version of spack.
Report problems to hpctoolkit-forum at rice dot edu. But before
reporting a problem, first try the versions recommended in the
packages.yaml file in the spack subdirectory of the
hpctoolkit repository. And always check the latest version of this file
on the hpctoolkit web site.
Last revised: June 17, 2019.
No known issues at this time.
Packages that use a spack resource (a second tar file) are currently broken. This includes intel-xed (x86_64 only) and hpcviewer (all platforms).
Fixed: This is now fixed in spack develop in commit
aca1bfdb6a64 on 2019-06-13.
These are general problems that arise from time to time.
Sometimes spack fails to download the source file(s) for some package and dies with a message similar to this.
==> Fetching from https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/m4/m4-1.4.18.tar.gz failed. ==> Error: FetchError: All fetchers failed for m4-1.4.18-vorbvkcjfac43b7vuswsvnm6xe7w7or5
This problem is usually temporary and the solution is to either wait a few minutes or an hour and try again, or else download the file manually and put it into a spack mirror.
Sometimes the latest version of some package breaks the build. This has happened a couple of times where a new version of Boost has broken the build for Dyninst. The solution is to revert the package to an earlier version until the rest of the code catches up.
Sometimes but rarely, something in the spack core will change or break
the code in some package.py file. The solution is to look
through the spack git log and revert the repository to a recent commit
before the breakage.
Avoid boost version 1.68.0, it breaks the build for hpctoolkit. Version 1.70.0 works with the latest version of dyninst (10.1.0), or else 1.66.0 is good and works with all versions of dyninst.
Elfutils 0.176 requires glibc 2.16 or later (for aligned_alloc)
and won’t work with an older glibc, including RedHat or CentOS 6.x and
Blue Gene. On systems with an old glibc, use version 0.175.