Custom Spack Repository

Extra spack repository with EIC-related packages and overrides.

How to load this repository

To load the repository, clone and then load with spack:

spack clone https://eicweb.phy.anl.gov/containers/eic_container.git
spack repo add eic_contaienr/spack

Then use spack as you normally would.

Packages

• New packages
  • dawn: A tool to visualize detector geometries.
  • dawncut: A tool to edit detector visualizations.
• Package overrides
  • acts: Patch bug for simple disk geometries
  • dd4hep: Fix package hash which somehow is wrong in spack...
  • Geant4: Add extra hardcoded materials with Birks constant
  • fmt: Modified compiler flags to build shared library version.
  • madx: Add madx package
  • podio: add v0.13.1, also patch issue in cmake setup to allow build under /tmp/root, as needed by spack
  • qt: Added gcc10.patch to fix issues compiling QT with gcc10
  • root: Re-enabled http module as this builds fine on modern Linux systems and we use this heavily.