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authorTodd Gamblin <tgamblin@llnl.gov>2018-08-24 13:52:48 -0700
committerTodd Gamblin <tgamblin@llnl.gov>2018-08-24 16:22:37 -0700
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Remove Python 3.3 from testing.
- Support for Python 3.3 isn't really needed, as nothing uses it as the default system Python, and nearly everyone will have a newer Python 3 version installed.
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@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Prerequisites
Spack has the following minimum requirements, which must be installed
before Spack is run:
-1. Python 2 (2.6 or 2.7) or 3 (3.3 - 3.6)
+1. Python 2 (2.6 or 2.7) or 3 (3.4 - 3.7)
2. A C/C++ compiler
3. The ``git`` and ``curl`` commands.
4. If using the ``gpg`` subcommand, ``gnupg2`` is required.
@@ -1218,13 +1218,13 @@ Here's an example of an external configuration for cray modules:
This tells Spack that for whatever package that depends on mpi, load the
cray-mpich module into the environment. You can then be able to use whatever
environment variables, libraries, etc, that are brought into the environment
-via module load.
+via module load.
.. note::
- For Cray-provided packages, it is best to use ``modules:`` instead of ``paths:``
+ For Cray-provided packages, it is best to use ``modules:`` instead of ``paths:``
in ``packages.yaml``, because the Cray Programming Environment heavily relies on
- modules (e.g., loading the ``cray-mpich`` module adds MPI libraries to the
+ modules (e.g., loading the ``cray-mpich`` module adds MPI libraries to the
compiler wrapper link line).
You can set the default compiler that Spack can use for each compiler type.