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authorTodd Gamblin <tgamblin@llnl.gov>2023-12-13 16:36:22 -0800
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Improve parsing of quoted flags and variants in specs (#41529)
This PR does several things: - [x] Allow any character to appear in the quoted values of variants and flags. - [x] Allow easier passing of quoted flags on the command line, e.g. `cflags="-O2 -g"`. - [x] Handle quoting better in spec output, using single quotes around double quotes and vice versa. - [x] Disallow spaces around `=` and `==` when parsing variants and flags. ## Motivation This PR is motivated by the issues above and by ORNL's [tips for launching at scale on Frontier](https://docs.olcf.ornl.gov/systems/frontier_user_guide.html#tips-for-launching-at-scale). ORNL recommends using `sbcast --send-libs` to broadcast executables and their libraries to compute nodes when running large jobs (e.g., 80k ranks). For an executable named `exe`, `sbcast --send-libs` stores the needed libraries in a directory alongside the executable called `exe_libs`. ORNL recommends pointing `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` at that directory so that `exe` will find the local libraries and not overwhelm the filesystem. There are other ways to mitigate this problem: * You could build with `RUNPATH` using `spack config add config:shared_linking:type:runpath`, which would make `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` take precedence over Spack's `RUNPATHs`. I don't recommend this one because `RUNPATH` can cause many other things to go wrong. * You could use `spack config add config:shared_linking:bind:true`, added in #31948, which will greatly reduce the filesystem load for large jobs by pointing `DT_NEEDED` entries in ELF *directly* at the needed `.so` files instead of relying on `RPATH` search via soname. I have not experimented with this at 80,000 ranks, but it should help quite a bit. * You could use [Spindle](https://github.com/hpc/Spindle) (as LLNL does on its machines) which should transparently fix this without any changes to your executable and without any need to use `sbcast` or other tools. But we want to support the `sbcast` use case as well. ## `sbcast` and Spack Spack's `RPATHs` break the `sbcast` fix because they're considered with higher precedence than `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`. So Spack applications will still end up hitting the shared filesystem when searching for libraries. We can avoid this by injecting some `ldflags` in to the build, e.g., if were were going to launch, say, `LAMMPS` at scale, we could add another `RPATH` specifically for use with `sbcast`: spack install lammps ldflags='-Wl,-rpath=$ORIGIN/lmp_libs' This will put the `lmp_libs` directory alongside `LAMMPS`'s `lmp` executable first in the `RPATH`, so it will be searched before any directories on the shared filesystem. ## Issues with quoting Before this PR, the command above would've errored out for two reasons: 1. `$` wasn't an allowed character in our spec parser. 2. You would've had to double quote the flags to get them to pass through correctly: spack install lammps ldflags='"-Wl,-rpath=$ORIGIN/lmp_libs"' This is ugly and I don't think many users will easily figure it out. The behavior was added in #29282, and it improved parsing of specs passed as a single string, e.g.: spack install 'lammps ldflags="-Wl,-rpath=$ORIGIN/lmp_libs"' but a lot of users are naturally going to try to quote arguments *directly* on the command line, without quoting their entire spec. #29282 used a heuristic to detect unquoted flags and warn the user, but the warning could be confusing. In particular, if you wrote `cflags="-O2 -g"` on the command line, it would break the flags up, warn, and tell you that you could fix the issue by writing `cflags="-O2 -g"` even though you just wrote that. It's telling you to *quote* that value, but the user has to know to double quote. ## New heuristic for quoted arguments from the CLI There are only two places where we allow arbitrary quoted strings in specs: flags and variant values, so this PR adds a simpler heuristic to the CLI parser: if an argument in `sys.argv` starts with `name=...`, then we assume the whole argument is quoted. This means you can write: spack install bzip2 cflags="-O2 -g" directly on the command line, without multiple levels of quoting. This also works: spack install 'bzip2 cflags="-O2 -g"' The only place where this heuristic runs into ambiguity is if you attempt to pass anonymous specs that start with `name=...` as one large string. e.g., this will be interpreted as one large flag value: spack find 'cflags="-O2 -g" ~bar +baz' This sets `cflags` to `"-O2 -g" ~bar +baz`, which is likely not what you wanted. You can fix this easily by either removing the quotes: spack find cflags="-O2 -g" ~bar +baz Or by adding a space at the start, which has the same effect: spack find ' cflags="-O2 -g" ~bar +baz' You may wonder why we don't just look for quotes inside of flag arguments, and the reason is that you *might* want them there. If you are passing arguments like: spack install zlib cppflags="-D DEBUG_MSG1='quick fox' -D DEBUG_MSG2='lazy dog'" You *need* the quotes there. So we've opted for one potentially confusing, but easily fixed outcome vs. limiting what you can put in your quoted strings. ## Quotes in formatted spec output In addition to being more lenient about characters accepted in quoted strings, this PR fixes up spec formatting a bit. We now format quoted strings in specs with single quotes, unless the string has a single quote in it, in which case we JSON-escape the string (i.e., we add `\` before `"` and `\`). zlib cflags='-D FOO="bar"' zlib cflags="-D FOO='bar'" zlib cflags="-D FOO='bar' BAR=\"baz\""
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