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
By default Spack uses the latest (highest version) GCC
compiler available, which might change across updates
of the Github CI environment.
Since a C compiler is always installed and `mpich~fortran`
will result in faster build times, avoid building the FORTRAN
interface as part of the test.
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>
Nightly builds with MacOS started failing again
due to an upgrade of the default virtual environment
that now uses Python 3.8
This makes us hit #14102 and every build fails. This
commit should be reverted along with the fix to #14102.
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
* Run Python2.6 unit tests on Github Actions
* Skip url tests on Python 2.6 to reduce waiting times
* Skip foreground background tests on Python 2.6 to reduce waiting times
* Removed references to Travis in the documentation
* Deleted install_patchelf.sh (can be installed from repo on CentOS 6)
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.
* MacOS build tests
- Run on PR that modify the YAML file of the workflow
- Don't clone Spack, since we are in the Spack repo now
* Try to add opengl to configuration to build jupyter
* fixup
* Move flake8 tests on Github Actions
* Move shell test to Github Actions
* Moved documentation build to Github Action
* Don't run coverage on Python 2.6
Since we get connection errors consistently on Travis
when trying to upload coverage results for Python 2.6,
avoid computing coverage entirely to speed-up tests.
* Added unit tests to Github Actions
* Set user e-mail and name for git tests to succeed
* Simplify setup.sh logic
* Replicate Travis script on Github Actions
* Update flags since '.' is not allowed
* Added badge, simplified workflow
* Remove pinning of coverage
* Remove unit tests run on Github Actions from Travis
I usually want to look at the Travis CI output, but I currently have to
scroll down to see it. This renames checks to be a bit shorter and more
consistent with Travis's naming, and also so that actions appear lower
than travis and codecov in the list of checks.
This PR moves build smoke tests from TravisCI and migrates them to Github Actions. The result is that build tests are performed in parallel with unit tests and they don't hog additional resources on Travis. The workflow will not run if a PR only changes packages in the built-in repository, but will always run on pushes to develop or master.
* Removed build tests from Travis and passed them to Github Actions
* Store ~/.ccache in Github Actions cache
* Add filters on paths and make sure this workflow don't run
* Use paths-ignore and exclude only files in the built-in repo
* Added a badge to README.md
This commit removes the `python_version.py` unit test module
and the vendored dependencies `pyqver2.py` and `pyqver3.py`.
It substitutes them with an equivalent check done using
`vermin` that is run as a separate workflow via Github Actions.
This allows us to delete 2 vendored dependencies that are unmaintained
and substitutes them with a maintained tool.
Also, updates the list of vendored dependencies.
