try out spack built dependencies + a build cache

Author: rem1776

.github/workflows/github_cmake_nvhpc.yml

@@ -10,44 +10,26 @@ jobs:
   intel-autotools:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     container:
-      image: "nvcr.io/nvidia/nvhpc:26.3-devel-cuda_multi-ubuntu22.04"
+      image: spack/rockylinux9:1.1.1
       env:
-        CC: mpiicc
-        FC: mpiifort
+        CC: mpicc
+        FC: mpifort
         FCFLAGS: "-g -traceback"
         TEST_VERBOSE: 1
     steps:
-    - name: Cache dependencies
-      id: cache
-      uses: actions/cache@v4.2.0
-      with:
-        path: /libs
-        key: intel-libs
-    - name: Install packages for building
-      run: apt-get update && apt-get install -y autoconf libtool automake zlib1g-dev
-    - if: steps.cache.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
-      name: Build netcdf
-      run: |
-        mkdir /libs
-        wget https://hdf-wordpress-1.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/manual/HDF5/HDF5_1_12_2/source/hdf5-1.12.2.tar.gz
-        tar xf hdf5-1.12.2.tar.gz && cd hdf5-1.12.2
-        ./configure
-        make -j install && cd ..
-        wget https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/archive/refs/tags/v4.8.1.tar.gz
-        tar xf v4.8.1.tar.gz && cd netcdf-c-4.8.1
-        ./configure --enable-remote-fortran-bootstrap
-        make -j install
-        # sets this here to pass embeded configure checks
-        make -j -k build-netcdf-fortran
-        make -j install-netcdf-fortran
-        wget https://github.com/yaml/libyaml/releases/download/0.2.5/yaml-0.2.5.tar.gz
-        tar xf yaml-0.2.5.tar.gz && cd yaml-0.2.5
-        ./configure
-        make -j install && cd
     - name: checkout
       uses: actions/checkout@v4.2.2
+    - name: Set up spack and build cache
+      run: |
+        spack mirror add rem-gh-cache oci://ghcr.io/rem1776/ci-cache-rocky9
+        spack compiler find
+    - name: Install compilers
+      run: spack install nvhpc@26.1
+    - name: Install dependencies
+      run: spack install netcdf-fortran %%nvhpc mpich %%nvhpc libyaml %%nvhpc
     - name: Configure
       run: |
+        spack load nvhpc netcdf-fortran libyaml mpich
         autoreconf -if ./configure.ac
         ./configure --with-yaml
     - name: Compile