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-rw-r--r--var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/libxpm/package.py8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/libxpm/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/libxpm/package.py
index 7cc339f92c..24a49f0436 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/libxpm/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/libxpm/package.py
@@ -27,5 +27,9 @@ class Libxpm(AutotoolsPackage):
depends_on('util-macros', type='build')
def setup_environment(self, spack_env, run_env):
- spack_env.append_flags('LDFLAGS', '-L{0} -lintl'.format(
- self.spec['gettext'].prefix.lib))
+ # If libxpm is installed as an external package, gettext won't
+ # be available in the spec. See
+ # https://github.com/spack/spack/issues/9149 for details.
+ if 'gettext' in self.spec:
+ spack_env.append_flags('LDFLAGS', '-L{0} -lintl'.format(
+ self.spec['gettext'].prefix.lib))