Building Spack Baselibs

Get Spack

$ git clone https://github.com/spack/spack.git
$ cd spack
$ git checkout features/use-module-interface

Set up spack config directory

Look here: https://github.com/mathomp4/parcel-spack-config

Commands used in testing

$ spack install libelf%gcc@8.2.0
$ spack install hdf
$ spack install hdf5
$ spack install netcdf-fortran

I then edited the esmf package:

diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/esmf/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/esmf/package.py
index ce60c4b1f..107dcd3c6 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/esmf/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/esmf/package.py
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ class Esmf(MakefilePackage):
     homepage = "https://www.earthsystemcog.org/projects/esmf/"
     url      = "http://www.earthsystemmodeling.org/esmf_releases/non_public/ESMF_7_0_1/esmf_7_0_1_src.tar.gz"

+    version('8.0.0b14', '9750fc781e785f877c1dd3cc4f88898989eb01fb9ba06df04afb1ad2e0b36e3a')
     version('7.0.1', 'd3316ea79b032b8fb0cd40e5868a0261')

     variant('mpi',     default=True,  description='Build with MPI support')
@@ -52,14 +53,15 @@ class Esmf(MakefilePackage):

     # Allow different directories for creation and
     # installation of dynamic libraries on OSX:
-    patch('darwin_dylib_install_name.patch', when='platform=darwin')
+    #patch('darwin_dylib_install_name.patch', when='platform=darwin')
+    patch('darwin_dylib_install_name.8.0.0b14.patch', when='platform=darwin')

     # Make script from mvapich2.patch executable
-    @run_before('build')
-    @when('@:7.0.99')
-    def chmod_scripts(self):
-        chmod = which('chmod')
-        chmod('+x', 'scripts/libs.mvapich2f90')
+    #@run_before('build')
+    #@when('@:7.0.99')
+    #def chmod_scripts(self):
+        #chmod = which('chmod')
+        #chmod('+x', 'scripts/libs.mvapich2f90')

     def url_for_version(self, version):
         return "http://www.earthsystemmodeling.org/esmf_releases/non_public/ESMF_{0}/esmf_{0}_src.tar.gz".format(version.underscored)

The new patch needed is:

--- a/build/common.mk	2019-01-02 10:16:10.000000000 -0500
+++ b/build/common.mk	2019-01-02 10:23:06.000000000 -0500
@@ -3834,11 +3834,11 @@
 		    mkdir tmp_$$NEXTLIB ;\
 		    cd tmp_$$NEXTLIB  ;\
 	                $(ESMF_AREXTRACT) ../$$NEXTLIB.$(ESMF_LIB_SUFFIX) ;\
-                    echo $(ESMF_SL_LIBLINKER) $(ESMF_SL_LIBOPTS) -o $(ESMF_LDIR)/$$NEXTLIB.$(ESMF_SL_SUFFIX) *.o $(ESMF_SL_LIBLIBS) ;\
-		    $(ESMF_SL_LIBLINKER) $(ESMF_SL_LIBOPTS) -o $(ESMF_LDIR)/$$NEXTLIB.$(ESMF_SL_SUFFIX) *.o $(ESMF_SL_LIBLIBS) ;\
+		    echo $(ESMF_SL_LIBLINKER) $(ESMF_SL_LIBOPTS) -Wl,-install_name -Wl,@rpath/$$NEXTLIB.$(ESMF_SL_SUFFIX) -o $(ESMF_LDIR)/$$NEXTLIB.$(ESMF_SL_SUFFIX) *.o $(ESMF_SL_LIBLIBS) ;\
+		    $(ESMF_SL_LIBLINKER) $(ESMF_SL_LIBOPTS) -Wl,-install_name -Wl,@rpath/$$NEXTLIB.$(ESMF_SL_SUFFIX) -o $(ESMF_LDIR)/$$NEXTLIB.$(ESMF_SL_SUFFIX) *.o $(ESMF_SL_LIBLIBS) ;\
 		    echo Converting $$NEXTLIB.$$ESMF_LIB_SUFFIX to $$NEXTLIB\_fullylinked.$(ESMF_SL_SUFFIX) ;\
-                    echo $(ESMF_SL_LIBLINKER) $(ESMF_SL_LIBOPTS) -o $(ESMF_LDIR)/$$NEXTLIB\_fullylinked.$(ESMF_SL_SUFFIX) *.o $(ESMF_CXXLINKOPTS) $(ESMF_CXXLINKPATHS) $(ESMF_CXXLINKRPATHS) $(ESMF_CXXLINKLIBS) ;\
-		    $(ESMF_SL_LIBLINKER) $(ESMF_SL_LIBOPTS) -o $(ESMF_LDIR)/$$NEXTLIB\_fullylinked.$(ESMF_SL_SUFFIX) *.o $(ESMF_CXXLINKOPTS) $(ESMF_CXXLINKPATHS) $(ESMF_CXXLINKRPATHS) $(ESMF_CXXLINKLIBS) ;\
++		    echo $(ESMF_SL_LIBLINKER) $(ESMF_SL_LIBOPTS) -Wl,-install_name -Wl,@rpath/$$NEXTLIB\_fullylinked.$(ESMF_SL_SUFFIX) -o $(ESMF_LDIR)/$$NEXTLIB\_fullylinked.$(ESMF_SL_SUFFIX) *.o $(ESMF_CXXLINKOPTS) $(ESMF_CXXLINKPATHS) $(ESMF_CXXLINKRPATHS) $(ESMF_CXXLINKLIBS) ;\
++		    $(ESMF_SL_LIBLINKER) $(ESMF_SL_LIBOPTS) -Wl,-install_name -Wl,@rpath/$$NEXTLIB\_fullylinked.$(ESMF_SL_SUFFIX) -o $(ESMF_LDIR)/$$NEXTLIB\_fullylinked.$(ESMF_SL_SUFFIX) *.o $(ESMF_CXXLINKOPTS) $(ESMF_CXXLINKPATHS) $(ESMF_CXXLINKRPATHS) $(ESMF_CXXLINKLIBS) ;\
 		    cd .. ;\
 		    $(ESMF_RM) -r tmp_$$NEXTLIB ;\
 		fi ;\