* Don't run bootstrap on package only PRs
* Run bootstrap tests when ci.yaml is modified
* Test a package only PR
* Revert "Test a package only PR"
This reverts commit af96b1af60b0c31efcc9a2875ffb1a809ef97241.
* ci: restore coverage computation
* Mark "test_foreground_background" as xfail
* Mark "test_foreground_background_output" as xfail
* Make number of processes explicit, remove verbosity on linux
* Run coverage on just 3 Python jobs for linux
* Run coverage on just 3 Python jobs for linux
* Run coverage on just 2 Python jobs for linux
* Add back verbose, since before we didn't encounter the xdist internal error
* Reduce the workers to 2
* Try to use command line
* ci: remove !docs from "core" filters
Written like it is now it causes package only PRs
to run with coverage.
* Try to skip job under condition, see if the workflow proceed
* Try to cancel a running CI job
* Simplify linux unit-tests, skip windows unit-tests on package PRs
* Reduce the inputs to unit-tests workflow
* Move control logic to main workflow, remove inputs
* Revert "Move control logic to main workflow, remove inputs"
This reverts commit 0c46fece4c49eb7a37585ec3ba651a31d7f958af.
* Do not compute "with_coverage" since it's always == to "core"
* Remove workflow dispatch from unit tests
* Revert "Revert "Move control logic to main workflow, remove inputs""
This reverts commit dd4e4a4e61a825901e736348fd044d37e88c90b5.
* Try to skip all from the main workflow
* Add back bootstrap to needed checks for "all"
* Restore the correct logic for conditionals
* Add two no-op jobs named "all-prechecks" and "all"
These are a suggestion from @tgamblin, they are stable named markers we
can use from gitlab and possibly for required checks to make CI more
resilient to refactors changing the names of specific checks.
* Enable parallel testing using xdist for unit testing in CI
* Normalize tmp paths to deal with macos
* add -u flag compatibility to spack python
As of now, it is accepted and ignored. The usage with xdist, where it
is invoked specifically by `python -u spack python` which is then passed
`-u` by xdist is the entire reason for doing this. It should never be
used without explicitly passing -u to the executing python interpreter.
* use spack python in xdist to support python 2
When running on python2, spack has many import cycles unless started
through main. To allow that, this uses `spack python` as the
interpreter, leveraging the `-u` support so xdist doesn't error out when
it unconditionally requests unbuffered binary IO.
* Use shutil.move to account for tmpdir being in a separate filesystem sometimes
This patchset refactors our GitHub actions into a single top-level ci workflow that
invokes a series of reusable actions. The main goal of this is to be able to easily
control which tests run and in what order based on the success or failure of top-level
prechecks. Our previous workflows ran in three sets:
* nix tests: style and verification first, then linux and macos tests if successful
* windows tests: style and verification first, then linux and macos tests if successful
* bootstrap tests
As a result, the bootstrap tests ran even if the style failed, and style and verification
had to run on two different platforms despite running identical checks. I'm relatively
sure that's because of the limitation on dependencies between steps in the jobs.
Reusable workflows allow us to run the style, verification and now audit checks once,
then depending on the results, and the files changed, run the appropriate nix, windows
and bootstrap tests. While it saves only a few minutes by itself, this makes it easier to
refactor checks to subset tests without having to replicate tests or other workflow
components in the future.
Co-authored-by: Massimiliano Culpo <massimiliano.culpo@gmail.com>
This adds necessary configuration for flake8 and black to work together.
This also sets the line length to 99, per the data here:
* https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/24718#issuecomment-876933636
Given the data and the spirit of black's 88-character limit, we set the limit to 99
characters for all of Spack, because:
* 99 is one less than 100, a nice round number, and all lines will fit in a
100-character wide terminal (even when the text editor puts a \ at EOL).
* 99 is just past the knee the file size curve for packages, and it means that packages
remain readable and not significantly longer than they are now.
* It doesn't seem to hurt core -- files in core might change length by a few percent but
seem like they'll be mostly the same as before -- just a bit more roomy.
- [x] set line length to 99
- [x] remove most exceptions from `.flake8` and add the ones black cares about
- [x] add `[tool.black]` to `pyproject.toml`
- [x] make `black` run if available in `spack style --fix`
Co-Authored-By: Tom Scogland <tscogland@llnl.gov>
When installing setuptools from sources in Spack, we might
get into weird failures due to the way we use pip.
In particular, for Spack it's necessary to install in a
non-isolated pip environment to allow using PYTHONPATH as a
selection method for all the build requirements of a
Python package.
This can fail when installing setuptools since there might
be a setuptools version already installed for the Python
interpreter being used, with different entry points than
the one we want to install.
Installing from wheels both pip and setuptools should
harden our installation procedure in the context of:
- Bootstrapping Python dependencies of Spack
- Using external Python packages
* Cancel running workflows automatically on PR update
* Add the last update later to check cancellation is working
* Use github.run_number instead of github.sha
This PR introduces a new build cache layout and package format, with improvements for
both efficiency and security.
## Old Format
Currently a binary package consists of a `spec.json` file at the root and a `.spack` file,
which is a `tar` archive containing a copy of the `spec.json` format, possibly a detached
signature (`.asc`) file, and a tar-gzip compressed archive containing the install tree.
```
build_cache/
# metadata (for indexing)
<arch>-<compiler>-<name>-<ver>-24zvipcqgg2wyjpvdq2ajy5jnm564hen.spec.json
<arch>/
<compiler>/
<name>-<ver>/
# tar archive
<arch>-<compiler>-<name>-<ver>-24zvipcqgg2wyjpvdq2ajy5jnm564hen.spack
# tar archive contents:
# metadata (contains sha256 of internal .tar.gz)
<arch>-<compiler>-<name>-<ver>-24zvipcqgg2wyjpvdq2ajy5jnm564hen.spec.json
# signature
<arch>-<compiler>-<name>-<ver>-24zvipcqgg2wyjpvdq2ajy5jnm564hen.spec.json.asc
# tar.gz-compressed prefix
<arch>-<compiler>-<name>-<ver>-24zvipcqgg2wyjpvdq2ajy5jnm564hen.tar.gz
```
After this change, the nesting has been removed so that the `.spack` file is the
compressed archive of the install tree. Now signed binary packages, will take the
form of a clearsigned `spec.json` file (a `spec.json.sig`) at the root, while unsigned
binary packages will contain a `spec.json` at the root.
## New Format
```
build_cache/
# metadata (for indexing, contains sha256 of .spack file)
<arch>-<compiler>-<name>-<ver>-24zvipcqgg2wyjpvdq2ajy5jnm564hen.spec.json
# clearsigned spec.json metadata
<arch>-<compiler>-<name>-<ver>-24zvipcqgg2wyjpvdq2ajy5jnm564hen.spec.json.sig
<arch>/
<compiler>/
<name>-<ver>/
# tar.gz-compressed prefix (may support more compression formats later)
<arch>-<compiler>-<name>-<ver>-24zvipcqgg2wyjpvdq2ajy5jnm564hen.spack
```
## Benefits
The major benefit of this change is that the signatures on binary packages can be
verified without:
1. Having to download the tarball, or
2. having to extract an unknown tarball.
(1) is an improvement in efficiency; (2) is a security fix: we now ensure that we trust the
binary before we try to run it through `tar`, which avoids potential attacks.
## Backward compatibility
Also after this change, spack should still be able to handle the previous buildcache
structure and binary mirrors with mixed layouts.
- [x] Add `mkdir -p` and `chmod` to ensure `/home/spack-test` exists and
has correct permissions.
- [x] Remove version comments from dependabot-managed action commits
- [x] Don't duplicate comment describing required fixes for distros with
patched git
This PR updates the list of images we build nightly, deprecating
Ubuntu 16.04 and CentOS 8 and adding Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04
and CentOS Stream. It also removes a lot of duplication by generating
the Dockerfiles during the CI workflow and uploading them as artifacts
for later inspection or reuse.
Ubuntu patched git v2.25.1 with a security fix that also
introduced a breaking change, so v2.25.1 behaves like
v2.35.2 with respect to the use cases in CVE-2022-24765
Fixup common tests
* Remove requirement for Python 2.6
* Skip new failing test
Windows: Update url util to handle Windows paths (#27959)
* update url util to handle windows paths
* Update tests to handle fixed url handling
* canonicalize path only when the path type matches the host platform
* Skip some url tests on Windows
Co-authored-by: Omar Padron <omar.padron@kitware.com>
Use threading.TIMEOUT_MAX when available (#24246)
This value was introduced in Python 3.2. Specifying a timeout greater than
this value will raise an OverflowError.
Co-authored-by: Lou Lawrence <lou.lawrence@kitware.com>
Co-authored-by: John Parent <john.parent@kitware.com>
Co-authored-by: Betsy McPhail <betsy.mcphail@kitware.com>
* Fix building container images
Patchelf is bootstrapped from sources, so we cannot
disable that mechanism until a finer selection is
possible in the configuration.
* Build on changes to the Dockerfile
* Don't login to Dockerhub on PRs
* Add a CI job to audit all the packages in the built-in repository
* flecsi: fixed typo for dependency on legion
* py-pythonqwt: fix a typo in variant name
* sollve: removed a conflict with a non-existing variant
* acts: fixed use of wrong variant in dd4hep
Also removed duplicated variant declaration in dd4hep
* aoflagger: update variant of a dependency
Issues introduced indirectly in #22925
* camellia: removed unused variant
Issue introduced indirectly in #26150
* cbtf-*: remove cti variants and dependency on mrnet+cti
Issue introduced in #14178
* flecsale: update variants to match flecsi
Issue introduced in #11679
* grnboost: fixed issue with non-existing variant in a dependency
This package possibly never worked since #8763
* nalu: fixed issue with non-existing variant in a dependency
* open-iscsi: fixed issue with non-existing variant in a dependency
* openspeedshop-*: remove use of non-existing mrnet+cti variant
* percept: fixed issue with non-existing variant in a dependency
* phyluce: fixed issue with non-existing variant in a dependency
Issue introduced in #12952
* phyluce: fixed issue with non-existing variant in a dependency
Issue introduced in #22340
Remove a custom bootstrapping procedure to
use spack.bootstrap instead
Modifications:
* Reference count the bootstrap context manager
* Avoid SpackCommand to make the bootstrapping
procedure more transparent
* Put back requirement on patchelf being in PATH for unit tests
* Add an e2e test to check bootstrapping patchelf
Modifications:
- [x] Removed `centos:6` unit test, adjusted vermin checks
- [x] Removed backport of `collections.OrderedDict`
- [x] Removed backport of `functools.total_ordering`
- [x] Removed Python 2.6 specific skip markers in unit tests
- [x] Fixed a few minor Python 2.6 related TODOs in code
Updating the vendored dependencies will be done in separate PRs
Currently Spack vendors `pytest` at a version which is three major
versions behind the latest (3.2.5 vs. 6.2.4). We do that since v3.2.5
is the latest version supporting Python 2.6. Remaining so much
behind the currently supported versions though might introduce
some incompatibilities and is surely a technical debt.
This PR modifies Spack to:
- Use the vendored `pytest@3.2.5` only as a fallback solution,
if the Python interpreter used for Spack doesn't provide a newer one
- Be able to parse `pytest --collect-only` in all the different output
formats from v3.2.5 to v6.2.4 and use it consistently for `spack unit-test --list-*`
- Updating the unit tests in Github Actions to use a more recent `pytest` version
* GnuPG: allow bootstrapping from buildcache and sources
* Add a test to bootstrap GnuPG from binaries
* Disable bootstrapping in tests
* Add e2e test to bootstrap GnuPG from sources on Ubuntu
* Add e2e test to bootstrap GnuPG on macOS
Modifications:
- Modify the workflow to build container images without pushing when the workflow file itself is modified
- Strip the leading ghcr.io/spack/ from env.container env.versioned to prepare pushing to multiple registries
- Fixed CentOS 7 and Amazon Linux builds
- Login and push to Docker Hub as well as Github Action
- Add a badge to README.md with the status of docker images
Tumbleweed has been broken for a couple of days. The attempt
to fix it in #26170 didn't really work. Let's try to move to
a more stable release series for OpenSuse.
Modifications:
- [x] Change `defaults/config.yaml`
- [x] Add a fix for bootstrapping patchelf from sources if `compilers.yaml` is empty
- [x] Make `SPACK_TEST_SOLVER=clingo` the default for unit-tests
- [x] Fix package failures in the e4s pipeline
Caveats:
1. CentOS 6 still uses the original concretizer as it can't connect to the buildcache due to issues with `ssl` (bootstrapping from sources requires a C++14 capable compiler)
1. I had to update the image tag for GitlabCI in e699f14.
1. libtool v2.4.2 has been deprecated and other packages received some update
* Add a __reduce__ method to SpecBuildInterface
This class was confusing pickle when being serialized,
due to its scary nature of being an object that disguise
as another type.
* Add more MacOS tests, switch them to clingo
* Fix condition syntax
* Remove Python v3.6 and v3.9 with macOS
* Bootstrap clingo from binaries
* Move information on clingo binaries to a JSON file
* Add support to bootstrap on Cray
Bootstrapping on Cray requires, at the moment, to
swap the platform when looking for binaries - due
to #22800.
* Add SHA256 verification for bootstrapped software
Use sha256 verification for binaries necessary to bootstrap
the concretizer and gpg for signature verification
* patchelf: use Spec._old_concretize() to bootstrap
As noted in #24450 we may happen to need the
concretizer when bootstrapping clingo. In that case
only the old concretizer is available.
* Add a schema for bootstrapping methods
Two fields have been added to bootstrap.yaml:
"sources" which lists the methods available for
bootstrapping software
"trusted" which records if a source is trusted or not
A subcommand has been added to "spack bootstrap" to list
the sources currently available.
* Methods used for bootstrapping are configurable from bootstrap:sources
The function that tries to ensure a given Python module
is importable now tries bootstrapping methods in the same
order as they are defined in `bootstrap.yaml`
* Permit to trust/untrust bootstrapping methods
* Add binary tests for MacOS, Ubuntu
* Add documentation
* Add a note on bash
This pull request adds a new workflow to build and deploy Spack Docker containers
from GitHub Actions. In comparison with our current system where we use Dockerhub's
CI to build our Docker containers, this workflow will allow us to now build for multiple
architectures and deploy to multiple registries. (At the moment x86_64 and Arm64 because
ppc64le is throwing an error within archspec.)
As currently set up, the PR will build all of the current containers (minus Centos6 because
those yum repositories are no longer available?) as both x86_64 and Arm64 variants. The
workflow is currently setup to build and deploy containers nightly from develop as well as
on tagged releases. The workflow will also build, but NOT deploy containers on a pull request
for the purposes of testing this PR. At the moment it is setup to deploy the built containers to
GitHub's Container Registry although, support for also uploading to Dockerhub/Quay can be
included easily if we decide to keep releasing on Dockerhub/want to begin releasing on Quay.
Add a workflow to test bootstrapping clingo on
different platforms so that we can detect changes
that break it.
Compute `site_packages_dir` in `bootstrap.py` as it was
before #24095, until we figure a better way to override
that attribute.
Modifications:
- Remove the "build tests" workflow from GitHub Actions
- Setup a similar e2e test on Gitlab
In this way we'll reduce load on GitHub Actions workflows and for e2e tests will
benefit from the buildcache reuse granted by pipelines.
This adds a `--root` option so that `spack style` can check style for
a spack instance other than its own.
We also change the inner workings of `spack style` so that `--config FILE`
(and similar options for the various tools) options are used. This ensures
that when `spack style` runs, it always uses the config from the running spack,
and does *not* pick up configuration from the external root.
- [x] add `--root` option to `spack style`
- [x] add `--config` (or similar) option when invoking style tools
- [x] add a test that verifies we can check an external instance
This uses our bootstrapping logic to automatically install dependencies for
`spack style`. Users should no longer have to pre-install all of the tools
(`isort`, `mypy`, `black`, `flake8`). The command will do it for them.
- [x] add logic to bootstrap specs with specific version requirements in `spack style`
- [x] remove style tools from CI requirements (to ensure we test bootstrapping)
- [x] rework dependencies for `mypy` and `py-typed-ast`
- `py-typed-ast` needs to be a link dependency
- it needs to be at 1.4.1 or higher to work with python 3.9
Signed-off-by: vsoch <vsoch@users.noreply.github.com>
Getting rid of another top-level file.
`coverage.py` has supported `pyproject.toml` since version 5.0, and
all versions of coverage so far work with python 2.7. We just need to
ensure that a version of coverage with the `toml` extra is installed
in the test environment.
I tested this with `coverage run`, `coverage report`, and `coverage html`.
This moves our `mypy` configuration from `.mypy.ini` to `.pyproject.toml`
and increases the minimum `mypy` version in the tests.
- [x] move `mypy` configuration to `pyproject.toml`
- [x] remove `.mypy.ini`
- [x] ensure that `mypy` version .900 or higher is used in tests
* fix remaining flake8 errors
* imports: sort imports everywhere in Spack
We enabled import order checking in #23947, but fixing things manually drives
people crazy. This used `spack style --fix --all` from #24071 to automatically
sort everything in Spack so PR submitters won't have to deal with it.
This should go in after #24071, as it assumes we're using `isort`, not
`flake8-import-order` to order things. `isort` seems to be more flexible and
allows `llnl` mports to be in their own group before `spack` ones, so this
seems like a good switch.
`dateutil.parser` was an optional dependency for CVS tests. It was failing on macOS
beacuse the dateutil types were not being installed, and mypy was failing *even when the
CVS tests were skipped*. This seems like it was an oversight on macOS --
`types-dateutil-parser` was not installed there, though it was on Linux unit tests.
It takes 6 lines of YAML and some weird test-skipping logic to get `python-dateutil` and
`types-python-dateutil` installed in all the tests where we need them, but it only takes
4 lines of code to write the date parser we need for CVS, so I just did that instead.
Note that CVS date format can vary from system to system, but it seems like it's always
pretty similar for the parts we care about.
- [x] Replace dateutil.parser with a simpler date regex
- [x] Lose the dependency on `dateutil.parser`
* Force the Python interpreter with an env variable
This commit forces the Python interpreter with an
environment variable, to ensure that the Python set
by the "setup-python" action is the one being used.
Due to the policy adopted by Spack to prefer python3
over python we may end up picking a Python 3.X
interpreter where Python 2.7 was meant to be used.
* Revert "Update conftest.py (#24473)"
This reverts commit 477c8ce820.
* Make python-dateutil a soft dependency for unit tests
Before #23212 people could clone spack and run
```
spack unit-tests
```
while now this is not possible, since python-dateutil is
a required but not vendored dependency. This change makes
it not a hard requirement, i.e. it will be used if found
in the current interpreter.
* Workaround mypy complaint
Spack packages can now fetch versions from CVS repositories. Note
this fetch mechanism is unsafe unless using :extssh:. Most public
CVS repositories use an insecure protocol implemented as part of CVS.
This adds RHEL8's `/usr/libexec/platform-python` to Spack's list of preferred
pythons. It will only be used if no other `python` is available in the `PATH`.
We have been testing with this python for a while now, and it seems to do all
that we need. If Spack one day isn't able to work with it, we'll take it out,
but for now it is useful to allow Spack to be used on RHEL8 without a dedicated
`python` installation.
Clingo has been released on PyPI, so there
are no more concerns on our CI depending
on pypy.test for installing the wheel.
Apparently we have parts of Spack which
are not compatible with kcov > 3.4
* QA: reduce number of unit tests for jobs not in the matrix
* Fixup for CentOS6 dependencies
* Put correct conditions back in place
* Add dependency on changes
PRs that change only package recipes will only run tests under "package_sanity.py" and without coverage. This should result in a huge drop the cpu-time spent in CI for most PRs.
* unit tests: mark slow tests as "maybeslow"
This commit also removes the "network" marker and
marks every "network" test as "maybeslow". Tests
marked as db are maintained, but they're not slow
anymore.
* GA: require style tests to pass before running unit-tests
* GA: make MacOS unit tests fail fast
* GA: move all unit tests into the same workflow, run style tests as a prerequisite
All the unit tests have been moved into the same workflow so that a single
run of the dorny/paths-filter action can be used to ask for coverage based
on the files that have been changed in a PR. The basic idea is that for PRs
that introduce only changes to packages coverage is not necessary, this
resulting in a faster execution of the tests.
Also, for package only PRs slow unit tests are skipped.
Finally, MacOS and linux unit tests are now conditional on style tests passing
meaning that e.g. we won't waste a MacOS worker if we know that the PR has
flake8 issues.
* Addressed review comments
* Skipping slow tests on MacOS for package only recipes
* QA: make tests on changes correct before merging
* Allow the bootstrapping of clingo from sources
Allow python builds with system python as external
for MacOS
* Ensure consistent configuration when bootstrapping clingo
This commit uses context managers to ensure we can
bootstrap clingo using a consistent configuration
regardless of the use case being managed.
* Github actions: test clingo with bootstrapping from sources
* Add command to inspect and clean the bootstrap store
Prevent users to set the install tree root to the bootstrap store
* clingo: documented how to bootstrap from sources
Co-authored-by: Gregory Becker <becker33@llnl.gov>
There clingo-cffi job has two issues to be solved:
1. It uses the default concretizer
2. It requires a package from https://test.pypi.org/simple/
The former can be fixed by setting the SPACK_TEST_SOLVER
environment variable to "clingo".
The latter though requires clingo-cffi to be pushed to a
more stable package index (since https://test.pypi.org/simple/
is meant as a scratch version of PyPI that can be wiped at
any time).
For the time being run the tests in a container. Switch back to
PyPI whenever a new official version of clingo will be released.
* Support clingo when used with cffi
Clingo recently merged in a new Python module option based on cffi.
Compatibility with this module requires a few changes to spack - it does not automatically convert strings/ints/etc to Symbol and clingo.Symbol.string throws on failure.
manually convert str/int to clingo.Symbol types
catch stringify exceptions
add job for clingo-cffi to Spack CI
switch to potassco-vendored wheel for clingo-cffi CI
on_unsat argument when cffi
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
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.
