Merge pull request #179 from uturuncoglu/hotfix/spack_build

Remove fixed GCC version from Spack build action

.github/workflows/scripts/spack_concretize.sh

@@ -134,6 +134,29 @@ if [[ "$comp" == *"oneapi"* ]]; then
   echo "::endgroup::"
 fi
 
+# check given gcc compiler is found or not? If not, use newer version
+if [[ "$comp" == *"gcc"* ]]; then
+  echo "::group::Check gcc compiler"
+  comp_str=${comp/@/@=}
+  str=`echo $comp_str | awk -F\@ '{print $1}'`
+  comp_ver=`grep -ir "${str}@=" ~/.spack/linux/compilers.yaml | tr -d "spec: ${str}@=" | sort -n | tail -n 1`
+
+  use_latest=0
+  if [[ "$comp" == *"gcc@latest"* ]]; then
+     echo "The gcc@latest is set. Trying to find latest available gcc compiler ..."
+     use_latest=1
+  elif [ -z "$(cat ~/.spack/linux/compilers.yaml | grep $comp_str)" ]; then
+     echo "Given compiler ($comp) is not found! Exiting ..."
+     exit 1
+  fi
+
+  if [[ $use_latest == 1 ]]; then
+     comp="${str}@$comp_ver"
+  fi
+  echo "Using $comp gnu compiler."
+  echo "::endgroup::"
+fi
+
 # create spack.yaml
 echo "::group::Create spack.yaml"
 echo "spack:" > spack.yaml

.github/workflows/test-build-spack.yml

@@ -1,13 +1,18 @@
 name: Build ESMF Using Spack
 
 env:
-  compiler: gcc@11.3.0
+  compiler: gcc@latest
   esmf_version: 'esmf@develop'
   nuopc_app_version: 'develop'
 
 on:
   workflow_dispatch:
     inputs:
+      compiler:
+        description: 'Compiler version like [email protected] or gcc@latest (latest available version on runner)'
+        required: false
+        type: string
+        default: 'gcc@latest'
       esmf_version: 
         description: 'ESMF version or tag like esmf@develop or esmf@=8.5.0b23'
         required: false
@@ -39,7 +44,11 @@ jobs:
         echo "ENV  : >${{ env.esmf_version }}< >${{ env.nuopc_app_version }}<"
 
         # create matrix JSON file
-        str1="{\"compiler\": [\"${{ env.compiler }}\"],"
+        if [ -z "${{ inputs.compiler }}" ]; then
+          str1="{\"compiler\": [\"${{ env.compiler }}\"],"
+        else
+          str1="{\"compiler\": [\"${{ inputs.compiler }}\"],"  
+        fi
         if [ -z "${{ inputs.esmf_version }}" ]; then
           str2="\"esmf\": [\"${{ env.esmf_version }}+external-parallelio\", \"${{ env.esmf_version }}~external-parallelio\"]}"
           echo "nuopc_app_version=${{ env.nuopc_app_version }}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT