From 7e2b8d1205e5a48e46964412ff0f8c18b9782171 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: TheAssembler1 <lewisnoah592@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:49:53 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] ci: add Spack installation and test workflow (closes
 #235)

---
 .github/workflows/spack-install.yml | 72 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 72 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 .github/workflows/spack-install.yml

diff --git a/.github/workflows/spack-install.yml b/.github/workflows/spack-install.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ef4518ba0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/spack-install.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+name: Spack Installation
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    branches:
+      - develop
+      - stable
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - develop
+      - stable
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+jobs:
+  spack-install-and-test:
+    name: Spack Install + Test (Ubuntu)
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+    timeout-minutes: 90
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout PDC
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Set up Spack
+        uses: spack/setup-spack@v3
+        with:
+          buildcache: true
+
+      # Install all PDC dependencies from Spack's binary cache.
+      # We skip PDC itself and build it below with CMake so that
+      # BUILD_TESTING=ON and run_test.sh work out of the box.
+      - name: Install PDC dependencies via Spack
+        run: |
+          spack install --only dependencies pdc \
+            ^libfabric fabrics=sockets,tcp,udp,rxm
+
+      # Capture the full Spack load environment (PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH,
+      # PKG_CONFIG_PATH, etc.) into a file we can source in later steps.
+      - name: Capture Spack environment
+        run: |
+          spack load --sh --only dependencies pdc \
+            ^libfabric fabrics=sockets,tcp,udp,rxm \
+            > $GITHUB_WORKSPACE/spack-env.sh
+          echo "=== spack-env.sh ==="
+          cat $GITHUB_WORKSPACE/spack-env.sh
+
+      - name: Build PDC with tests
+        run: |
+          source $GITHUB_WORKSPACE/spack-env.sh
+          mkdir build && cd build
+          cmake ../ \
+            -DBUILD_MPI_TESTING=ON \
+            -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON \
+            -DPDC_SERVER_CACHE=ON \
+            -DBUILD_TESTING=ON \
+            -DPDC_ENABLE_MPI=ON \
+            -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=mpicc \
+            -DCMAKE_POLICY_VERSION_MINIMUM=3.5
+          make -j$(nproc)
+
+      # run_test.sh (called by every CTest entry) backgrounds pdc_server,
+      # runs the client binary, then calls close_server — so ctest handles
+      # the full server lifecycle automatically.
+      - name: Run serial tests
+        working-directory: build
+        run: |
+          source $GITHUB_WORKSPACE/spack-env.sh
+          ctest -L serial --output-on-failure

From 3dab48d271709988a20e8c0df828954be455cbea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: TheAssembler1 <lewisnoah592@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:58:55 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] fix spack bug

---
 .github/workflows/spack-install.yml | 11 +----------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/spack-install.yml b/.github/workflows/spack-install.yml
index ef4518ba0..91b39cbb5 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/spack-install.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/spack-install.yml
@@ -30,20 +30,14 @@ jobs:
         with:
           buildcache: true
 
-      # Install all PDC dependencies from Spack's binary cache.
-      # We skip PDC itself and build it below with CMake so that
-      # BUILD_TESTING=ON and run_test.sh work out of the box.
       - name: Install PDC dependencies via Spack
         run: |
           spack install --only dependencies pdc \
             ^libfabric fabrics=sockets,tcp,udp,rxm
 
-      # Capture the full Spack load environment (PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH,
-      # PKG_CONFIG_PATH, etc.) into a file we can source in later steps.
       - name: Capture Spack environment
         run: |
-          spack load --sh --only dependencies pdc \
-            ^libfabric fabrics=sockets,tcp,udp,rxm \
+          spack load --sh openmpi libfabric mercury boost \
             > $GITHUB_WORKSPACE/spack-env.sh
           echo "=== spack-env.sh ==="
           cat $GITHUB_WORKSPACE/spack-env.sh
@@ -62,9 +56,6 @@ jobs:
             -DCMAKE_POLICY_VERSION_MINIMUM=3.5
           make -j$(nproc)
 
-      # run_test.sh (called by every CTest entry) backgrounds pdc_server,
-      # runs the client binary, then calls close_server — so ctest handles
-      # the full server lifecycle automatically.
       - name: Run serial tests
         working-directory: build
         run: |

From cb63120a2baf2712a489f9f119d0b5d68c5a0d9e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: TheAssembler1 <47840925+TheAssembler1@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:18:51 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Update spack-install.yml

---
 .github/workflows/spack-install.yml | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/spack-install.yml b/.github/workflows/spack-install.yml
index 91b39cbb5..8ce4a6d91 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/spack-install.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/spack-install.yml
@@ -39,6 +39,8 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           spack load --sh openmpi libfabric mercury boost \
             > $GITHUB_WORKSPACE/spack-env.sh
+          echo "export CPATH=$(spack location -i boost)/include:\$CPATH" \
+            >> $GITHUB_WORKSPACE/spack-env.sh
           echo "=== spack-env.sh ==="
           cat $GITHUB_WORKSPACE/spack-env.sh