Development¶
This page is for developers and maintainers of Stackinator.
Debug environment¶
Debugging stack builds can be challenging, because the build uses an environment with paths mounted and remounted using bwrap and different environment variables than the calling shell.
A helper script that will open a new shell with the same environment as the stack build is generated in the build path.
The script, stack-debug.sh, can be sourced to start the new bash shell:
The new shell has spack in its path, and has the store path mounted at the environment's mount point.
To finish debugging, exit the shell with exit or ctrl-d.