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-rw-r--r--var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/boost/package.py9
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/boost/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/boost/package.py
index 2f108dcac8..487445ab10 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/boost/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/boost/package.py
@@ -42,8 +42,15 @@ class Boost(Package):
list_url = "http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/"
list_depth = 1
+ # NOTE: 1.64.0 seems fine for *most* applications, but if you need
+ # +python and +mpi, there seem to be errors with out-of-date
+ # API calls from mpi/python.
+ # See: https://github.com/LLNL/spack/issues/3963
version('1.64.0', '93eecce2abed9d2442c9676914709349')
- version('1.63.0', '1c837ecd990bb022d07e7aab32b09847')
+
+ # Set previous release to preferred for now, can be removed
+ # once boost+python+mpi is fixed.
+ version('1.63.0', '1c837ecd990bb022d07e7aab32b09847', preferred=True)
version('1.62.0', '5fb94629535c19e48703bdb2b2e9490f')
version('1.61.0', '6095876341956f65f9d35939ccea1a9f')
version('1.60.0', '65a840e1a0b13a558ff19eeb2c4f0cbe')