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| author | Adam J. Stewart <ajstewart426@gmail.com> | 2018-08-06 15:56:45 -0500 |
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| committer | scheibelp <scheibel1@llnl.gov> | 2018-08-06 16:56:45 -0400 |
| commit | 5f10d9239ba3b982a0a6ff00559e3e4fa94c7da7 (patch) | |
| tree | 7c755707c800b54be074e80a5c7c48b7cdd81d2c | |
| parent | 4e985051c09a5dbd1292558623c837a3e1bbc861 (diff) | |
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Remove default variant bug from list of known issues (#8900)
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diff --git a/lib/spack/docs/known_issues.rst b/lib/spack/docs/known_issues.rst index 899f6addac..fff2cd8d08 100644 --- a/lib/spack/docs/known_issues.rst +++ b/lib/spack/docs/known_issues.rst @@ -5,38 +5,6 @@ Known Issues This is a list of known bugs in Spack. It provides ways of getting around these problems if you encounter them. ------------------------------------------------------------------ -Default variants are not taken into account during concretization ------------------------------------------------------------------ - -**Status:** Expected to be fixed in the next release - -Current concretization algorithm does not take into account default values -of variants when adding extra constraints to the spec via CLI. For example -you may encounter the following error when trying to specify which MPI provider -to use: - -.. code-block:: console - - $ spack install hdf5 ^openmpi - ==> Error: hdf5 does not depend on openmpi - -although the hdf5 package contains: - -.. code-block:: python - - variant('mpi', default=True, description='Enable MPI support') - depends_on('mpi', when='+mpi') - -A workaround is to explicitly activate the variant related to the dependency: - -.. code-block:: console - - $ spack install hdf5+mpi ^openmpi - -See https://github.com/spack/spack/issues/397 for further details. - - --------------------------------------------------- Variants are not properly forwarded to dependencies --------------------------------------------------- |