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authorAdam J. Stewart <ajstewart426@gmail.com>2020-10-11 23:16:00 -0500
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2020-10-11 21:16:00 -0700
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Add testing for Python 3.9 (#19261)
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@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Prerequisites
Spack has the following minimum requirements, which must be installed
before Spack is run:
-#. Python 2 (2.6 or 2.7) or 3 (3.5 - 3.8) to run Spack
+#. Python 2 (2.6 or 2.7) or 3 (3.5 - 3.9) to run Spack
#. A C/C++ compiler for building
#. The ``make`` executable for building
#. The ``tar``, ``gzip``, ``bzip2``, ``xz`` and optionally ``zstd``
@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ before Spack is run:
#. If using the ``gpg`` subcommand, ``gnupg2`` is required
These requirements can be easily installed on most modern Linux systems;
-on Macintosh, XCode is required. Spack is designed to run on HPC
-platforms like Cray and BlueGene/Q. Not all packages should be expected
+on macOS, XCode is required. Spack is designed to run on HPC
+platforms like Cray. Not all packages should be expected
to work on all platforms. A build matrix showing which packages are
working on which systems is planned but not yet available.
@@ -53,12 +53,12 @@ in the ``SPACK_ROOT`` environment variable. Add ``$SPACK_ROOT/bin``
to your path and you're ready to go:
.. code-block:: console
-
+
# For bash/zsh users
$ export SPACK_ROOT=/path/to/spack
$ export PATH=$SPACK_ROOT/bin:$PATH
- # For tsch/csh users
+ # For tsch/csh users
$ setenv SPACK_ROOT /path/to/spack
$ setenv PATH $SPACK_ROOT/bin:$PATH