At least with ZSH, prefix inspections containing `./bin` result in a
`$PREFIX/./bin` and result in strange `$PATH` handling.
I.e., `module load git` will prepend `/path/to/git/./bin`, `which git`
will find the right executable, but `git --version` will print the
system one. Normalize the relative path to avoid this behavior.
See also spack/spack#31867.
The code in FileCache for write_transaction attempts to delete the temporary file when an exception occurs under the context by calling shutil.rmtree. However, rmtree only operates on directories while the rest of FileCache uses normal files. This causes an empty file to be written to the cache key when unneeded.
Use os.remove instead which operates on normal files.
Co-authored-by: Harmen Stoppels <harmenstoppels@gmail.com>
fixes#34518
Fix an issue due to the MRO chain of the package wrapper
during build. Before this PR we were always returning
False when the builder object was created before the
run_tests method was monkey patched.
* Add a regression test for 33928
* PackageBase should not set `(build|install)_time_test_callbacks`
* Fix audits by preserving the current semantic
Co-authored-by: Massimiliano Culpo <massimiliano.culpo@gmail.com>
Avoid text decoding and encoding when combining log files, instead
combine in binary mode.
Also do a buffered copy which is sometimes faster for large log files.
* uninstall: fix accidental cubic complexity
Currently spack uninstall runs in worst case cubic time complexity
thanks to traversal during traversal during traversal while collecting
the specs to be uninstalled.
Also brings down the number of error messages printed to something
linear in the amount of matching specs instead of quadratic.
Revamp the timer so we always have a designated begin and end.
Fix a bug where the phase timer was stopped before the phase started,
resulting in incorrect timing reports in timers.json.
Environments and environment views have taken over the role of `spack activate/deactivate`, and we should deprecate these commands for several reasons:
- Global activation is a really poor idea:
- Install prefixes should be immutable; since they can have multiple, unrelated dependents; see below
- Added complexity elsewhere: verification of installations, tarballs for build caches, creation of environment views of packages with unrelated extensions "globally activated"... by removing the feature, it gets easier for people to contribute, and we'd end up with fewer bugs due to edge cases.
- Environment accomplish the same thing for non-global "activation" i.e. `spack view`, but better.
Also we write in the docs:
```
However, Spack global activations have two potential drawbacks:
#. Activated packages that involve compiled C extensions may still
need their dependencies to be loaded manually. For example,
``spack load openblas`` might be required to make ``py-numpy``
work.
#. Global activations "break" a core feature of Spack, which is that
multiple versions of a package can co-exist side-by-side. For example,
suppose you wish to run a Python package in two different
environments but the same basic Python --- one with
``py-numpy@1.7`` and one with ``py-numpy@1.8``. Spack extensions
will not support this potential debugging use case.
```
Now that environments are established and views can take over the role of activation
non-destructively, we can remove global activation/deactivation.
