spack-at-fnal

Documentation describing Spack use at Fermilab.

Setting up to build spack-at-fnal

On a Mac

Building prerequisites

• Building prerequisites will be much faster if you have Spack installed, and git, cmake (at least v3.24) and gmake installed via homebrew.

• For a full list of dependencies, see spack.yaml.

• A Python version in the range 3.10 -- 3.12 (spack does not yet support 3.13) We recommend

  brew install [email protected]
  

  Look at the output of python3 -V. If it is in the range above, all is well. If it is not, then export the environment variable SPACK_PYTHON to point at the correct executable, e.g.:

  export SPACK_PYTHON=python3.12
  

# This will make several directories under your current working directory.
# You should first `cd` to the directory under which you want these new
# directories to be made. A new, empty directory is recommended.

# One environment variable should be set to define the location of your
# clone of the spack_at_fnal repository.

export SPACK_AT_FNAL_DIR=/dev/null   # set this correctly for your own installation

export SPACK_DISABLE_LOCAL_CONFIG=true
export SPACK_USER_CACHE_PATH=`pwd`/spack-user-cache
export SPACK_PYTHON=python3.12   # or a different version, if you must

git clone https://github.com/FNALssi/spack    # we use our own clone
git clone https://github.com/FNALssi/fnal_art.git # repo for our recipes

source spack/share/spack/setup-env.sh
spack compiler find
spack bootstrap now
# spack external find cmake git gmake ninja
spack repo add fnal_art

spack mirror add --type binary --signed --scope site fnal-develop https://scisoft.fnal.gov/scisoft/spack-mirror/spack-fnal-develop
spack buildcache keys -it

spack env create docgen ${SPACK_AT_FNAL_DIR}/spack.yaml
spacktivate docgen
spack concretize
spack install

Note that when you first build the environment, you should first deactivate and then reactivate the environment.

To set up an already-created installation

# cd to the working directory that you chose, above.
# It will have the build, fnal_art, spack, and spack-user-cache
# subdirectories.

export SPACK_AT_FNAL_DIR=/dev/null   # set this correctly for your own installation
export SPACK_DISABLE_LOCAL_CONFIG=true
export SPACK_USER_CACHE_PATH=`pwd`/spack-user-cache
export SPACK_PYTHON=python3.12   # use the same as you did above
source spack/share/spack/setup-env.sh
spacktivate docgen

Building spack-at-fnal locally

mkdir <build-dir>
cd <build-dir>
cmake [-GNinja] -DBUILD_DOCS:BOOL=YES ${SPACK_AT_FNAL_DIR}
ninja

Top level index HTML will be found as doc/html/index.html.