Fix CI for Julia+Asserts. (#295)

Author: maleadt

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -59,16 +59,11 @@ jobs:
             ${{ runner.os }}-test-
             ${{ runner.os }}-
       - uses: julia-actions/julia-buildpkg@v1
-        env:
-          # precompiling the package loads LLVMExtra, which we cannot do with LLVM+Asserts
-          # because we first need to build a local LLVMExtra.
-          JULIA_PKG_PRECOMPILE: false
       - name: Build libLLVMExtra
         if: ${{ matrix.libLLVMExtra == 'local' }}
         run: |
           julia --project=deps -e 'using Pkg; Pkg.instantiate()'
           julia --project=deps deps/build_local.jl
-          julia --project -e 'using Pkg; Pkg.precompile()'
       # test
       - name: Run tests
         run: |

deps/build_local.jl

@@ -49,3 +49,7 @@ set_preferences!(
     "libLLVMExtra_path" => lib_path;
     force=true,
 )
+
+# Copy the preferences to `test/` as well to work around Pkg.jl#2500
+cp(joinpath(dirname(@__DIR__), "LocalPreferences.toml"),
+   joinpath(dirname(@__DIR__), "test", "LocalPreferences.toml"))

test/runtests.jl

@@ -1,11 +1,3 @@
-# HACK: work around Pkg.jl#2500
-test_project = Base.active_project()
-preferences_file = joinpath(dirname(@__DIR__), "LocalPreferences.toml")
-test_preferences_file = joinpath(dirname(test_project), "LocalPreferences.toml")
-if isfile(preferences_file) && !isfile(test_preferences_file)
-    cp(preferences_file, test_preferences_file)
-end
-
 using LLVM
 using LLVMExtra_jll
 using Test