The following improvements are made to cxx standard support
(e.g. compiler.cxxNN_flag functions) in compilers:
* Add cxx98_flag property
* Add support for throwing an exception when a flag is not supported (previously
if a flag was not supported the application was terminated with tty.die)
* The name of the flag associated with e.g. c++14 standard support changes for
different compiler versions (e.g. c++1y vs c++14). This makes a few corrections
on what flag to return for which version.
* Added tests to confirm that versions report expected flags for various c++
standards (or raise an exception for versions that don't provide a given cxx
standard)
Note that if a given cxx standard is the default, the associated flag property will
return ""; cxx98 is assumed to be the default standard so this is the behavior for
the associated property in the base compiler class.
Package changes:
* Improvements to the boost spec to take advantage of the improved standard
flag facility.
* Update the clingo spec to catch the new exception rather than look for an
empty flag to indicate non-support (which is not part of the compiler flag API)
* extend Prefix class with join() member to support dynamic directories
* add more tests for Prefix.join()
* more tests for Prefix.join()
* add docstring
* add example to docstring of Prefix class
* cleanup Prefix.join() tests
* use Prefix.join() in Packaging Guide
- Spack packages were originally expected to call `from spack import *`
themselves, but it has become difficult to manage imports in the
Spack core.
- the top-level namespace polluted by package symbols, and it's not
possible to avoid circular dependencies and unnecessary module loads in
the core, given all the stuff the packages need.
- This makes the top-level `spack` package essentially empty, save for a
version tuple and a version string, and `from spack import *` is now
essentially a no-op.
- The common routines and directives that packages need are now in
`spack.pkgkit`, and the import system forces packages to automatically
include this so that old packages that call `from spack import *`
will continue to work without modification.
- Since `from spack import *` is no longer required, we could consider
removing ``from spack import *`` from packages in the future and
shifting to ``from spack.pkgkit import *``, but we can wait a while to
do this.
- spack.util.lock behaves the same as llnl.util.lock, but Lock._lock and
Lock._unlock do nothing.
- can be disabled with a control variable.
- configuration options can enable/disable locking:
- `locks` option in spack configuration controls whether Spack will use filesystem locks or not.
- `-l` and `-L` command-line options can force-disable or force-enable locking.
- Spack will check for group- and world-writability before disabling
locks, and it will not allow a group- or world-writable instance to
have locks disabled.
- update documentation
- `spack.cmd.all_commands` does a directory listing on
`lib/spack/spack/cmd`, regardless of whether it is needed
- make this lazy so that the directory listing won't happen unless it's
necessary.
- spack.repository module is now spack.repo
- `spack.repo` is now `spack.repo.path()` and loaded lazily
- Added `spack.repo.get()` and `spack.repo.all_package_names()` as
convenience functions to simplify the new lazy interface.
- updated tests and code
- no longer require `spack_version` to be a Version (it isn't used that
way anyway)
- use a simple tuple `spack_version_info` with major, minor, patch
versions
- generate `spack_version` from the tuple
- command reference now includes usage for all Spack commands as output
by `spack help`. Each command usage links to any related section in
the docs.
- added `spack commands` command which can list command names,
subcommands, and generate RST docs for commands.
- added `llnl.util.argparsewriter`, which analyzes an argparse parser and
calls hooks for description, usage, options, and subcommands
This reorganizes most sections and rewords a significant portion of
the content (including all introductions) but keeps all the examples.
* Remove section 'What happens at subscript time' from tutorial:
it is too detailed for a tutorial
* Move the 'Extra query parameters' and 'Attach attributes to other
packages' sections into a separate grouping 'Other packaging topics'
* move the 'Set variables at build time yourself' section after
'Set environment variables in dependents' section since the latter
is more motivating
* start the 'set environment variables at build-time for yourself'
section with qt as an example
* renamed section 'specs build interface' to 'retrieving library
information' and updated section introduction
* renamed section 'a motivating example' to 'accessing library
dependencies'; split out the material which deals with implementing
.libs for netlib-lapack into a separate section called 'providing
libraries to dependents'. consolidated in material from the section
'single package providing multiple virtual specs' since
netlib-lapack is an example of this (this removes the material
about intel-parallel studio)
- Generating the HTML from for >2300 packages from RST in Sphinx seems to
take forever.
- Add an option to `spack list` to generate straight HTML instead.
- This reduces the doc build time to about a minute (from 5 minutes on a mac laptop).
* add OctavePackage
1. remove import CudaPackage which is not needed anymore
2. mention CudaPackage and OctavePackage in packaging guide
3. adjust OctavePackageTemplate
4. add clue file for Octave build
5. sanity check on self.prefix
* use setup_environment
This adds the ability for packages to apply compiler flags in one of
three ways: by injecting them into the compiler wrapper calls (the
default in this PR and previously the only automated choice);
exporting environment variable definitions for variables with
corresponding names (e.g. CPPFLAGS=...); providing them as arguments
to the build system (e.g. configure).
When applying compiler flags using build system arguments, a package
must implement the 'flags_to_build_system_args" function. This is
provided for CMake and autotools packages, so for packages which
subclass those build systems, they need only update their flag
handler method specify which compiler flags should be specified as
arguments to the build system.
Convenience methods are provided to specify that all flags be applied
in one of the 3 available ways, so a custom implementation is only
required if more than one method of applying compiler flags is
needed.
This also removes redundant build system definitions from tutorial
examples
Fixes#2440
The "Getting started" guide should be short and sweet. This commit
simplifies the "Environment-Modules" section pruning:
- outdated / wrong suggestions as noted in #2440
- uncommon setups that are better treated in a reference guide
* First draft for SC17 build systems portion
Added tutorial_buildsystems.rst file as well as example files under
the tutorial/ directory.
* Remove floating `
* Add requested changes, and examples of subclasses
Added in the requested changes to the documentation. Also added in
information about the subclasses and the defaults that they provide.
Also fixed some phrasing issues, formatting and punctuation.
* Flake8 fixes and new files for classes
Made flake8 fixes to pass tests and also added files to demonstrate code
in the classes.
* Minor edits
Edits in formatting and made some sentence changes
* Flake8 fixes
More flake8 fixes
* Flake8 fix
* Change section order on tutorial and minor edits
Placed the section at the appropriate section for the tutorial and then
added some minor edits that were requested.
* Add requested changes and more details
Added more details to Cmake, Makefile and Python Packages.
* Fixed formatting and minor edits
* Fix doc build error
* Allow types and 'any' in variant definitions.
- Previously variant values had to be a tuple or a callable predicate.
- This allows 'any' as shorthand for `lambda x: True` and type objects
as shorthand for "any value of this type".
- Makes variant definitions more readable, keeps lambdas out of
packages for common cases.
* Update packaging tutorial
* Fix bad file reference in packaging tutorial
* First draft of the advanced packaging tutorial
* advanced packaging tutorial: improved phrasing
Thanks Denis and Hartzell!
* Fixed typos + reworded a couple of sentences
* Reworked module file tutorial section
First draft for the SC17 update. This includes:
- adding an introduction on module files + Spack's module
generation blueprints
- adding a set-up section and provide a docker image for easy set-up
- updating all the relevant snippets
- extending a bit some of the concepts that were already touched
* Added reference to #5582 + committed Dockerfiles
Also fixed a couple of typos spotted by Denis.
* module file tutorial: added section on template customization
* module file tutorial: fixed minor typos + rephrased a sentence
* module file tutorial: made explicit that Docker image comes with software
* module file tutorial: improved phrasing and layout.
Thanks Hartzell!
* module file tutorial: added vim and nano to editors
* module file tutorial: fixed typo
* Fixed typos
Thanks Adam!
* module file tutorial: updated Dockerfile + minor changes in introduction
- This isn't one of those autogenerated SVGs from a drawing program!
- This is a completely re-traced, minimalist SVG file with clearly
delineated pieces so that your favorite renderer can draw a Spack logo
at whatever resolution you want.
- Included versions with text, as well.
* When creating a tar of a package for a build cache, symlinks are
preserved (the corresponding path in the newly-created tarfile will
be a symlink rather than a copy of the file)
* Dont add external packages to a build cache
* When installing from binary cache, don't create install prefix until
verification is complete
