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| author | Vanessasaurus <814322+vsoch@users.noreply.github.com> | 2021-04-16 01:29:42 -0600 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2021-04-16 09:29:42 +0200 |
| commit | e6de04d149f27e1ac1004087f9865f522d780ddd (patch) | |
| tree | 0c766d63388d158e403bd48a0bb0ed6e3c02bc74 /lib | |
| parent | 5d420544833360b437663ac29b3f010fb89d0f93 (diff) | |
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docs: spack does not have a variant debug for libelf (#23021)
Signed-off-by: vsoch <vsoch@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: vsoch <vsoch@users.noreply.github.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/spack/docs/basic_usage.rst | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/spack/docs/basic_usage.rst b/lib/spack/docs/basic_usage.rst index 738b4c579b..a8a45b65cb 100644 --- a/lib/spack/docs/basic_usage.rst +++ b/lib/spack/docs/basic_usage.rst @@ -963,7 +963,7 @@ Variants are named options associated with a particular package. They are optional, as each package must provide default values for each variant it makes available. Variants can be specified using a flexible parameter syntax ``name=<value>``. For example, -``spack install libelf debug=True`` will install libelf built with debug +``spack install mercury debug=True`` will install mercury built with debug flags. The names of particular variants available for a package depend on what was provided by the package author. ``spack info <package>`` will provide information on what build variants are available. @@ -971,11 +971,11 @@ provide information on what build variants are available. For compatibility with earlier versions, variants which happen to be boolean in nature can be specified by a syntax that represents turning options on and off. For example, in the previous spec we could have -supplied ``libelf +debug`` with the same effect of enabling the debug +supplied ``mercury +debug`` with the same effect of enabling the debug compile time option for the libelf package. Depending on the package a variant may have any default value. For -``libelf`` here, ``debug`` is ``False`` by default, and we turned it on +``mercury`` here, ``debug`` is ``False`` by default, and we turned it on with ``debug=True`` or ``+debug``. If a variant is ``True`` by default you can turn it off by either adding ``-name`` or ``~name`` to the spec. |