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| author | Mark W. Krentel <krentel@rice.edu> | 2018-10-16 17:34:22 -0500 |
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| committer | Peter Scheibel <scheibel1@llnl.gov> | 2018-10-16 15:34:22 -0700 |
| commit | e5e8d89ad9ad0c851e91d6b26e08e068112bf66a (patch) | |
| tree | a90da98cd9028850f47a11e813a6ff06d3ed08ee /lib | |
| parent | 1597d6762902ba6ddc4af0255cb82f87c2ae616f (diff) | |
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docs: add note about compilers with modules (#9520)
compilers.yaml can track a module that is needed for a compiler, but
Spack does not fill this in automatically. This adds a note to the
documentation informing the user how to do this.
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diff --git a/lib/spack/docs/getting_started.rst b/lib/spack/docs/getting_started.rst index 97b9a3a235..7fb1ad648c 100644 --- a/lib/spack/docs/getting_started.rst +++ b/lib/spack/docs/getting_started.rst @@ -202,6 +202,13 @@ installed, but you know that new compilers have been added to your This loads the environment module for gcc-4.9.0 to add it to ``PATH``, and then it adds the compiler to Spack. +.. note:: + + By default, spack does not fill in the ``modules:`` field in the + ``compilers.yaml`` file. If you are using a compiler from a + module, then you should add this field manually. + See the section on :ref:`compilers-requiring-modules`. + .. _cmd-spack-compiler-info: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ @@ -320,6 +327,7 @@ by adding the following to your ``packages.yaml`` file: all: compiler: [gcc@4.9.3] +.. _compilers-requiring-modules: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Compilers Requiring Modules |