Fix for the circular dependency issue (gpgpu-sim#116)

* Update the AccelSim test script to target the repo specified by the user.

* Change the warning for a missing ACCELSIM_REPO environment variable to an error and update workflow file to point to a temperory fix for circular dependency issue

* fix the repo name

* Change back to use dev branch

Author: yechen3

.github/workflows/accelsim.yml

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ on:
 
 # By default regress against accel-sim's dev branch
 env:
+  ACCELSIM_REPO: https://github.com/purdue-aalp/accel-sim-framework-public.git
   ACCELSIM_BRANCH: dev
 
 # A workflow run is made up of one or more jobs that can run sequentially or in parallel

short-tests-accelsim.sh

@@ -8,6 +8,11 @@ if [ ! -n "$ACCELSIM_BRANCH" ]; then
 	exit 1;
 fi
 
+if [ ! -n "$ACCELSIM_REPO" ]; then
+    echo "ERROR ** set the ACCELSIM_REPO env variable";
+    exit 1;
+fi
+
 if [ ! -n "$GPUAPPS_ROOT" ]; then
 	echo "ERROR ** GPUAPPS_ROOT to a location where the apps have been compiled";
 	exit 1;
@@ -19,10 +24,12 @@ export PATH=$CUDA_INSTALL_PATH/bin:$PATH
 source ./setup_environment
 make -j
 
-git clone https://github.com/accel-sim/accel-sim-framework.git
+git clone $ACCELSIM_REPO
+basename=$(basename $ACCELSIM_REPO)
+filename=${basename%.*}
 
 # Build accel-sim
-cd accel-sim-framework
+cd $filename
 git checkout $ACCELSIM_BRANCH
 source ./gpu-simulator/setup_environment.sh
 make -j -C ./gpu-simulator