Remove recursive symbolic link in lib/spack/docs from git repository (#33483)

Delete code removing the symlink during CI

6 files changed, 3 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/.github/workflows/unit_tests.yaml b/.github/workflows/unit_tests.yaml
index d2d267b516..1d84e5bfeb 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/unit_tests.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/unit_tests.yaml
@@ -221,9 +221,6 @@ jobs:
         $(which spack) unit-test --cov --cov-config=pyproject.toml "${common_args[@]}"
         coverage combine -a
         coverage xml
-        # Delete the symlink going from ./lib/spack/docs/_spack_root back to
-        # the initial directory, since it causes ELOOP errors with codecov/actions@2
-        rm lib/spack/docs/_spack_root
     - uses: codecov/codecov-action@d9f34f8cd5cb3b3eb79b3e4b5dae3a16df499a70
       with:
         flags: unittests,macos
diff --git a/.github/workflows/windows_python.yml b/.github/workflows/windows_python.yml
index adb8344d94..5acc87af70 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/windows_python.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/windows_python.yml
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@ jobs:
         echo F|xcopy .\spack\share\spack\qa\configuration\windows_config.yaml $env:USERPROFILE\.spack\windows\config.yaml
         cd spack
         dir
-        (Get-Item '.\lib\spack\docs\_spack_root').Delete()
         spack unit-test --verbose --cov --cov-config=pyproject.toml --ignore=lib/spack/spack/test/cmd
         coverage combine -a
         coverage xml
@@ -58,7 +57,6 @@ jobs:
       run: |
         echo F|xcopy .\spack\share\spack\qa\configuration\windows_config.yaml $env:USERPROFILE\.spack\windows\config.yaml
         cd spack
-        (Get-Item '.\lib\spack\docs\_spack_root').Delete()
         spack unit-test --verbose --cov --cov-config=pyproject.toml lib/spack/spack/test/cmd
         coverage combine -a
         coverage xml
diff --git a/lib/spack/docs/_spack_root b/lib/spack/docs/_spack_root
deleted file mode 120000
index a8a4f8c212..0000000000
--- a/lib/spack/docs/_spack_root
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../../..
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/lib/spack/docs/conf.py b/lib/spack/docs/conf.py
index 542a3d9024..1bdce87238 100644
--- a/lib/spack/docs/conf.py
+++ b/lib/spack/docs/conf.py
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ from sphinx.parsers import RSTParser
 # If extensions (or modules to document with autodoc) are in another directory,
 # add these directories to sys.path here. If the directory is relative to the
 # documentation root, use os.path.abspath to make it absolute, like shown here.
+link_name = os.path.abspath("_spack_root")
+if not os.path.exists(link_name):
+    os.symlink(os.path.abspath("../../.."), link_name, target_is_directory=True)
 sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath("_spack_root/lib/spack/external"))
 sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath("_spack_root/lib/spack/external/pytest-fallback"))
 
diff --git a/share/spack/qa/run-shell-tests b/share/spack/qa/run-shell-tests
index a300bee98b..465c68000e 100755
--- a/share/spack/qa/run-shell-tests
+++ b/share/spack/qa/run-shell-tests
@@ -56,9 +56,3 @@ fish "$QA_DIR/setup-env-test.fish"
 # run csh and tcsh tests
 csh  "$QA_DIR/setup-env-test.csh"
 tcsh "$QA_DIR/setup-env-test.csh"
-
-# Delete the symlink going from ./lib/spack/docs/_spack_root back to
-# the initial directory, since it causes ELOOP errors with codecov/actions@2
-if [[ "$COVERAGE" == "true" ]]; then
-  rm lib/spack/docs/_spack_root
-fi
diff --git a/share/spack/qa/run-unit-tests b/share/spack/qa/run-unit-tests
index 2de6b6101d..478e582242 100755
--- a/share/spack/qa/run-unit-tests
+++ b/share/spack/qa/run-unit-tests
@@ -74,7 +74,3 @@ fi
 
 
 bash "$QA_DIR/test-env-cfg.sh"
-
-# Delete the symlink going from ./lib/spack/docs/_spack_root back to
-# the initial directory, since it causes ELOOP errors with codecov/actions@2
-rm lib/spack/docs/_spack_root