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Fixed #15884. Spack asks every package linked into an environment to tell us how environment variables should be modified when a spack environment is activated. As part of this, specs in an environment are symlinked into the environment's view (see #13249), and the package calculates environment modifications with *the default view as the prefix*. All of this works nicely for pointing the user's environment at the view *if* every package is successfully linked. Unfortunately, right now we only track what specs "should" be in a view, not which specs actually are. So we end up calculating environment modifications on things that aren't linked into thee view, and the exception isn't caught, so lots of spack commands end up failing. This fixes the issue by ignoring and warning about specs where calculating environment modifications fails. So we can still keep using Spack even if the current environment is incomplete. We should probably also just avoid computing env modifications *entirely* for unlinked packages, but right now that is a slow operation (requires a lot of YAML parsing). We should revisit that when we have some better state management for views, but the fix adopted here will still be necessary, as we want spack commands to be resilient to other types of bugs in `setup_run_environment()` and friends. That code is in packages and we have to assume it could be buggy when we call it outside of builds (as it might fail more than just the build). |
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README.md |
Spack
Spack is a multi-platform package manager that builds and installs multiple versions and configurations of software. It works on Linux, macOS, and many supercomputers. Spack is non-destructive: installing a new version of a package does not break existing installations, so many configurations of the same package can coexist.
Spack offers a simple "spec" syntax that allows users to specify versions and configuration options. Package files are written in pure Python, and specs allow package authors to write a single script for many different builds of the same package. With Spack, you can build your software all the ways you want to.
See the Feature Overview for examples and highlights.
To install spack and your first package, make sure you have Python. Then:
$ git clone https://github.com/spack/spack.git
$ cd spack/bin
$ ./spack install zlib
Documentation
Full documentation is available, or
run spack help
or spack help --all
.
Tutorial
We maintain a hands-on tutorial. It covers basic to advanced usage, packaging, developer features, and large HPC deployments. You can do all of the exercises on your own laptop using a Docker container.
Feel free to use these materials to teach users at your organization about Spack.
Community
Spack is an open source project. Questions, discussion, and contributions are welcome. Contributions can be anything from new packages to bugfixes, documentation, or even new core features.
Resources:
- Slack workspace: spackpm.slack.com. To get an invitation, click here.
- Mailing list: groups.google.com/d/forum/spack
- Twitter: @spackpm. Be sure to
@mention
us!
Contributing
Contributing to Spack is relatively easy. Just send us a
pull request.
When you send your request, make develop
the destination branch on the
Spack repository.
Your PR must pass Spack's unit tests and documentation tests, and must be PEP 8 compliant. We enforce these guidelines with Travis CI. To run these tests locally, and for helpful tips on git, see our Contribution Guide.
Spack uses a rough approximation of the
Git Flow
branching model. The develop
branch contains the latest
contributions, and master
is always tagged and points to the latest
stable release.
Code of Conduct
Please note that Spack has a Code of Conduct. By participating in the Spack community, you agree to abide by its rules.
Authors
Many thanks go to Spack's contributors.
Spack was created by Todd Gamblin, tgamblin@llnl.gov.
Citing Spack
If you are referencing Spack in a publication, please cite the following paper:
- Todd Gamblin, Matthew P. LeGendre, Michael R. Collette, Gregory L. Lee, Adam Moody, Bronis R. de Supinski, and W. Scott Futral. The Spack Package Manager: Bringing Order to HPC Software Chaos. In Supercomputing 2015 (SC’15), Austin, Texas, November 15-20 2015. LLNL-CONF-669890.
License
Spack is distributed under the terms of both the MIT license and the Apache License (Version 2.0). Users may choose either license, at their option.
All new contributions must be made under both the MIT and Apache-2.0 licenses.
See LICENSE-MIT, LICENSE-APACHE, COPYRIGHT, and NOTICE for details.
SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
LLNL-CODE-647188