blaspp: added explicit dependency on CUDA (#17965)

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/blaspp/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/blaspp/package.py
index bcc5e80292..ddacfa22aa 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/blaspp/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/blaspp/package.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 from spack import *
 
 
-class Blaspp(CMakePackage):
+class Blaspp(CMakePackage, CudaPackage):
     """C++ API for the Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines. Developed by the
        Innovative Computing Laboratory at the University of Tennessee,
        Knoxville."""
@@ -62,6 +62,16 @@ class Blaspp(CMakePackage):
         else:
             args.append('-DBLAS_LIBRARY_THREADING="sequential"')
 
+        # `blaspp` has an implicit CUDA detection mechanism. This disables it
+        # in cases where it may backfire. One such case is when `cuda` is
+        # external and marked with `buildable=false`. `blaspp`'s CMake CUDA
+        # detection mechanism finds CUDA but doesn't set certain paths properly
+        # which leads to a build issues [1].
+        #
+        # [1]: https://bitbucket.org/icl/blaspp/issues/6/compile-error-due-to-implicit-cuda
+        if '~cuda' in spec:
+            args.append('-DCMAKE_CUDA_COMPILER=')
+
         # Missing:
         #
         # - acml  : BLAS_LIBRARY="AMD ACML"