As detailed in https://bugs.python.org/issue33725, starting new
processes with 'fork' on Mac OS is not guaranteed to work in general.
As of Python 3.8 the default process spawning mechanism was changed
to avoid this issue.
Spack depends on the fork-based method to preserve file descriptors
transparently, to preserve global state, and to avoid pickling some
objects. An effort is underway to remove dependence on fork-based
process spawning (see #18205). In the meantime, this allows Spack to
run with Python 3.8 on Mac OS by explicitly choosing to use 'fork'.
Co-authored-by: Peter Josef Scheibel <scheibel1@llnl.gov>
Co-authored-by: Adam J. Stewart <ajstewart426@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Todd Gamblin <tgamblin@llnl.gov>
Ci is currently failing on brew update with the error:
```
Error: Cannot install bazelisk because conflicting formulae are installed.
bazel: because Bazelisk replaces the bazel binary
Please `brew unlink bazel` before continuing.
Unlinking removes a formula's symlinks from /usr/local. You can
link the formula again after the install finishes. You can --force this
install, but the build may fail or cause obscure side effects in the
resulting software.
```
Avoiding:
```
$ brew update
$ brew upgrade
```
solves the issue by preventing the risk of conflicting formulae
Style and documentation tests take just a few minutes
to run. Since in Github actions one can't restart a single
job but needs to restart an entire workflow, here we group
tests with similar duration together.
