About

this is a spack repository containing radio astronomy software, mostly used for APERTIF.

Usage

First you need to make sure you can compile things and have curl available. On Ubuntu:

Clone the spack and apertif spack repositories somewhere on a good place on your filesystem:

$ mkdir ~/Work && cd ~/Work
$ git clone https://github.com/spack/spack.git
$ git clone https://github.com/TRASAL/spack spack-apertif

Now add the spack-apertif repoistory to your spack configuration:

$ echo "  - `pwd`/spack-apertif" >> spack/etc/spack/defaults/repos.yaml

Next you can activate the spack environment:

$ . spack/share/spack/setup-env.sh

Now you need to bootstrap your new environment:

$ spack bootstrap

For now we base everything on GCC 6.4.0:

$ spack install gcc@6.4.0
$ spack module load gcc@6.4.0
$ spack compiler find

After which you can start spacking astronomy packages:

$ spack install tempo %gcc@6.4.0

Notes:

If you run into troubles spacking dspsr with an error like:

openmpi requires hwloc version :1.999, but spec asked for 2.0.1

you have ran into this issue which you can solve by running:

$ spack install ompss ^hwloc@1.11.9