I lost my mind a bit after getting the completion stuff working and
decided to get Mypy working for spack as well. This adds a
`.mypy.ini` that checks all of the spack and llnl modules, though
not yet packages, and fixes all of the identified missing types and
type issues for the spack library.
In addition to these changes, this includes:
* rename `spack flake8` to `spack style`
Aliases flake8 to style, and just runs flake8 as before, but with
a warning. The style command runs both `flake8` and `mypy`,
in sequence. Added --no-<tool> options to turn off one or the
other, they are on by default. Fixed two issues caught by the tools.
* stub typing module for python2.x
We don't support typing in Spack for python 2.x. To allow 2.x to
support `import typing` and `from typing import ...` without a
try/except dance to support old versions, this adds a stub module
*just* for python 2.x. Doing it this way means we can only reliably
use all type hints in python3.7+, and mypi.ini has been updated to
reflect that.
* add non-default black check to spack style
This is a first step to requiring black. It doesn't enforce it by
default, but it will check it if requested. Currently enforcing the
line length of 79 since that's what flake8 requires, but it's a bit odd
for a black formatted project to be quite that narrow. All settings are
in the style command since spack has no pyproject.toml and I don't
want to add one until more discussion happens. Also re-format
`style.py` since it no longer passed the black style check
with the new length.
* use style check in github action
Update the style and docs action to use `spack style`, adding in mypy
and black to the action even if it isn't running black right now.
Users can add test() methods to their packages to run smoke tests on
installations with the new `spack test` command (the old `spack test` is
now `spack unit-test`). spack test is environment-aware, so you can
`spack install` an environment and then run `spack test run` to run smoke
tests on all of its packages. Historical test logs can be perused with
`spack test results`. Generic smoke tests for MPI implementations, C,
C++, and Fortran compilers as well as specific smoke tests for 18
packages.
Inside the test method, individual tests can be run separately (and
continue to run best-effort after a test failure) using the `run_test`
method. The `run_test` method encapsulates finding test executables,
running and checking return codes, checking output, and error handling.
This handles the following trickier aspects of testing with direct
support in Spack's package API:
- [x] Caching source or intermediate build files at build time for
use at test time.
- [x] Test dependencies,
- [x] packages that require a compiler for testing (such as library only
packages).
See the packaging guide for more details on using Spack testing support.
Included is support for package.py files for virtual packages. This does
not change the Spack interface, but is a major change in internals.
Co-authored-by: Tamara Dahlgren <dahlgren1@llnl.gov>
Co-authored-by: wspear <wjspear@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Adam J. Stewart <ajstewart426@gmail.com>
Spack creates a separate process to do package installation. Different
operating systems and Python versions use different methods to create
it but up until Python 3.8 both Linux and Mac OS used "fork" (which
duplicates process memory, file descriptor table, etc.).
Python >= 3.8 on Mac OS prefers creating an entirely new process
(referred to as the "spawn" start method) because "fork" was found to
cause issues (in other words "spawn" is the default start method used
by multiprocessing.Process). Spack was dependent on the particular
behavior of fork to replicate process memory and transmit file
descriptors.
This PR refactors the Spack internals to support starting a child
process with the "spawn" method. To achieve this, it makes the
following changes:
- ensure that the package repository and other global state are
transmitted to the child process
- ensure that file descriptors are transmitted to the child process in
a way that works with multiprocessing and spawn
- make all the state needed for the build process and tests picklable
(package, stage, etc.)
- move a number of locally-defined functions into global scope so that
they can be pickled
- rework tests where needed to avoid using local functions
This PR also reworks sbang tests to work on macOS, where temporary
directories are deeper than the Linux sbang limit. We make the limit
platform-dependent (macOS supports 512-character shebangs)
See: #14102
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.
