NGSolve
WIP: Patches for clean Fedora RPM builds that pass unit tests
Fedora has had a bad run past few years of shipping nonfunctional or only partially functional netgen builds despite carrying a number of downstream patches. This is an effort to get Fedora (my native development platform) support up to parity with Ubuntu/Win/Mac.
The issues addressed here are varied and wide-ranging; I'd not be surprised if my approach at various points isn't considered the best option. However, it's a complete minimal cut to get working packages that build and pass internal tests, and a sort of base-minimum I needed to continue on other pieces (like SALOME reconciliation).
One thing that's especially bugging me: Netgen has been at 6.2 for a comparatively long time now, and I'm not sure any of the 'tweak' releases have actually been cross-abi compatible. Is it perhaps time to beak to 6.3, or maybe even 7? The internal and external changes seem to warrant a step of that magnitude.
This needs a rebase and general cleanup taking comments into account. I'll have an updated patchset soon after a little more discussion (eg, I name my experimental packages with 'bleed' and I had meant to undo that before submitting but forgot).
This needs a rebase and general cleanup taking comments into account.
With github, this is typically noted by prefixing the PR title with WIP: .
WIP: added to both PRs, as both will need more revision/discussion. Apologies for the momentary lack of attention, work has been busy. I appreciate the deep and detailed review.
The biggest cause of latency on my side is looking into the nature of the nullptr checking changes in GCC and Glibc recently. In fact there has been some very deep churn there and I believe you're correct that something was very much not right in F35 (and may have been corrected already in F36/37).