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| author | Todd Gamblin <tgamblin@llnl.gov> | 2016-03-18 13:42:45 -0700 |
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| committer | Todd Gamblin <tgamblin@llnl.gov> | 2016-03-18 13:42:45 -0700 |
| commit | e9126baaabbfaa5e12641b3d44a5c5fd49e43ca3 (patch) | |
| tree | 16f702326eed8b17c0b582b2f062db83eac818bb /lib | |
| parent | 23f3f1adfe01f7b1301959e7e54584724679c7b3 (diff) | |
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Add docs for InstallError.
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diff --git a/lib/spack/docs/packaging_guide.rst b/lib/spack/docs/packaging_guide.rst index c1077e4497..519c0da232 100644 --- a/lib/spack/docs/packaging_guide.rst +++ b/lib/spack/docs/packaging_guide.rst @@ -1844,6 +1844,20 @@ dedicated process. .. _prefix-objects: + +Failing the build +---------------------- + +Sometimes you don't want a package to successfully install unless some +condition is true. You can explicitly cause the build to fail from +``install()`` by raising an ``InstallError``, for example: + +.. code-block:: python + + if spec.architecture.startswith('darwin'): + raise InstallError('This package does not build on Mac OS X!') + + Prefix objects ---------------------- |