Add propagation of legacy units for nmodl (#417)

* Add propagation of legacy units for nmodl
* use --latest with spack to find out newest installation
* Always use long options with spack
* disable legacy units in neuron installation
Co-authored-by: Pramod Kumbhar <[email protected]>

Author: Nicolas Cornu

CMakeLists.txt

@@ -246,7 +246,9 @@ if(CORENRN_ENABLE_LEGACY_UNITS)
 else()
   set(CORENRN_USE_LEGACY_UNITS 0)
 endif()
+# Propagate Legacy Units flag to backends.
 set(MOD2C_ENABLE_LEGACY_UNITS ${CORENRN_ENABLE_LEGACY_UNITS} CACHE BOOL "" FORCE)
+set(NMODL_ENABLE_LEGACY_UNITS ${CORENRN_ENABLE_LEGACY_UNITS} CACHE BOOL "" FORCE)
 
 if(MINGW)
   add_definitions("-DMINGW")

external/nmodl

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ set -x
 
 source ${JENKINS_DIR:-.}/_env_setup.sh
 
-reportinglib_dir=$(spack cd -i reportinglib%intel && pwd)
+reportinglib_dir=$(spack location --install-dir --latest reportinglib%intel)
 
 CORENRN_TYPE="$1"
 

tests/jenkins/install_coreneuron.sh

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ source ${JENKINS_DIR:-.}/_env_setup.sh
 spack install reportinglib%intel
 
 patch_neuron
-spack install neuron+debug@develop
+spack install neuron+debug@develop~legacy-unit
 source $SPACK_ROOT/share/spack/setup-env.sh
 module av neuron reportinglib