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MPI being disabled has nothing to do with what you show. In order to help you, we'll need more information.

MPI support has been heavily refactored since 5.8. Most of the efforts have been on improving the consistency within the build system, and now MPI is handled as the other external packages. In order to be able to use --with-mpi-prefix, you should make sure that the CC, CXX, and FC environment variab...

Did you try APE?

http://www.tddft.org/programs/APE/

Fix committed.

Dear Joe, The prefix "issue" is not a bug, it's a feature. I did this to become compliant with packaging standards. The version numbering problem you mention is known and will be fixed when you merge trunk into your branch. This was something I forgot to put in the new Abinit Forge managem...

Debugging symbols do not affect the performance of the code, nor its memory footprint, as they are not loaded in normal runs. They only impact the size of the binary. However, it is true that the more you optimize, the less using debugging symbols is relevant. In practice, it nevertheless provides i...

Dear Developers, In order to facilitate the debugging of new developments, Matthieu and I are proposing to have different debug levels in the build system, controlled by --enable-debug: ⋅ no: debugging fully disabled; ⋅ yes: debug symbols are provided; ⋅ enhanced: more ...

I've been having plans for an improved linalg support for a few years now, and have already made a few unsuccessful attempts. It slowly goes to higher and higher priority ranks on my todo list, but there are many other emergencies. Difficult to choose what to do first, sometimes ... If the weather i...

Dear All, During the lifespan of Abinit 5, we've successfully used Markdown for a certain number of things. Markdown is indeed light, easy to learn, and easy to use. It was perfectly matching the requirements of our former website. However the situation has substantially changed now, and our needs h...

Do you already have proposals about the nomenclature? If not, I recommend having a look at what they did for Octopus.

I can help in particular with the practical aspects of the migration to the new naming scheme once it is defined.
pouillon