Repository: spack/spack

Issue:
spack find : always prompt 0 installed packages
On a clean `develop` checkout : 

```
$ git clone https://github.com/LLNL/spack.git
Cloning into 'spack'...
remote: Counting objects: 25613, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (42/42), done.
remote: Total 25613 (delta 12), reused 3 (delta 3), pack-reused 25557
Receiving objects: 100% (25613/25613), 6.65 MiB | 6.46 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (13031/13031), done.
Checking connectivity... done.

$ cd spack
$ . share/spack/setup-env.sh 
$ spack compilers
==> Available compilers
-- gcc ----------------------------------------------------------
gcc@4.8

$ spack install zlib
==> Installing zlib
==> Trying to fetch from file:///home/mculpo/production/spack-mirror/zlib/zlib-1.2.8.tar.gz
######################################################################## 100,0%
==> Staging archive: /home/mculpo/tmp/spack/var/spack/stage/zlib-1.2.8-d6pdl6xvnvap6ihrqcqtgvweghbszmix/zlib-1.2.8.tar.gz
==> Created stage in /home/mculpo/tmp/spack/var/spack/stage/zlib-1.2.8-d6pdl6xvnvap6ihrqcqtgvweghbszmix
==> No patches needed for zlib
==> Building zlib
==> Successfully installed zlib
  Fetch: 0.01s.  Build: 3.69s.  Total: 3.70s.
[+] /home/mculpo/tmp/spack/opt/spack/linux-x86_64/gcc-4.8/zlib-1.2.8-d6pdl6xvnvap6ihrqcqtgvweghbszmix

$ spack find
==> 0 installed packages.

$ spack install szip
==> Installing szip
==> Trying to fetch from file:///home/mculpo/production/spack-mirror/szip/szip-2.1.tar.gz
######################################################################## 100,0%
==> Staging archive: /home/mculpo/tmp/spack/var/spack/stage/szip-2.1-esfmhl54wbdb7nnnip6y6jbxlbmxs2jq/szip-2.1.tar.gz
==> Created stage in /home/mculpo/tmp/spack/var/spack/stage/szip-2.1-esfmhl54wbdb7nnnip6y6jbxlbmxs2jq
==> No patches needed for szip
==> Building szip
==> Successfully installed szip
  Fetch: 0.01s.  Build: 8.09s.  Total: 8.10s.
[+] /home/mculpo/tmp/spack/opt/spack/linux-x86_64/gcc-4.8/szip-2.1-esfmhl54wbdb7nnnip6y6jbxlbmxs2jq

$ spack find 
==> 0 installed packages.
```

The db seems to be written correctly : 

```
database:
  installs:
    d6pdl6xvnvap6ihrqcqtgvweghbszmix:
      explicit: true
      installed: true
      path: /home/mculpo/tmp/spack/opt/spack/linux-x86_64/gcc-4.8/zlib-1.2.8-d6pdl6xvnvap6ihrqcqtgvweghbszmix
      ref_count: 0
      spec:
        zlib:
          arch: linux-x86_64
          compiler:
            name: gcc
            version: '4.8'
          dependencies: {}
          namespace: builtin
          parameters:
            cflags: []
            cppflags: []
            cxxflags: []
            fflags: []
            ldflags: []
            ldlibs: []
          version: 1.2.8
    esfmhl54wbdb7nnnip6y6jbxlbmxs2jq:
      explicit: true
      installed: true
      path: /home/mculpo/tmp/spack/opt/spack/linux-x86_64/gcc-4.8/szip-2.1-esfmhl54wbdb7nnnip6y6jbxlbmxs2jq
      ref_count: 0
      spec:
        szip:
          arch: linux-x86_64
          compiler:
            name: gcc
            version: '4.8'
          dependencies: {}
          namespace: builtin
          parameters:
            cflags: []
            cppflags: []
            cxxflags: []
            fflags: []
            ldflags: []
            ldlibs: []
          version: '2.1'
  version: 0.9.1
```



Discussion:

Resolving patch:
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/openblas/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/openblas/package.py
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/openblas/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/openblas/package.py
@@ -40,7 +40,8 @@ class Openblas(MakefilePackage):
     version('0.2.17', '664a12807f2a2a7cda4781e3ab2ae0e1')
     version('0.2.16', 'fef46ab92463bdbb1479dcec594ef6dc')
     version('0.2.15', 'b1190f3d3471685f17cfd1ec1d252ac9')
-    version('develop', git='https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS.git', branch='develop')
+    version('develop', git='https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS.git',
+            branch='develop')
 
     variant(
         'shared',
@@ -61,6 +62,12 @@ class Openblas(MakefilePackage):
         multi=False
     )
 
+    variant(
+        'virtual_machine',
+        default=False,
+        description="Adding options to build openblas on Linux virtual machine"
+    )
+
     # virtual dependency
     provides('blas')
     provides('lapack')
@@ -119,6 +126,13 @@ def make_defs(self):
             'FC={0}'.format(spack_f77),
             'MAKE_NO_J=1'
         ]
+
+        if self.spec.variants['virtual_machine'].value:
+            make_defs += [
+                'DYNAMIC_ARCH=1',
+                'NO_AVX2=1'
+            ]
+
         if self.spec.variants['cpu_target'].value:
             make_defs += [
                 'TARGET={0}'.format(self.spec.variants['cpu_target'].value)


Test patch: