Remove duplicate providers that can concretize to the same result

Patch generously provided by @becker33.

Closes #928.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/spack/spack/spec.py b/lib/spack/spack/spec.py
index 89a023a750..470353c4f6 100644
--- a/lib/spack/spack/spec.py
+++ b/lib/spack/spack/spec.py
@@ -1071,6 +1071,11 @@ class Spec(object):
         # If there is a provider for the vpkg, then use that instead of
         # the virtual package.
         if providers:
+            # Remove duplicate providers that can concretize to the same result.
+            for provider in providers:
+                for spec in providers:
+                    if spec is not provider and provider.satisfies(spec):
+                        providers.remove(spec)
             # Can't have multiple providers for the same thing in one spec.
             if len(providers) > 1:
                 raise MultipleProviderError(vdep, providers)