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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/spack/docs/module_file_support.rst | 10 |
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diff --git a/lib/spack/docs/module_file_support.rst b/lib/spack/docs/module_file_support.rst index 3d4e53915c..53f172accc 100644 --- a/lib/spack/docs/module_file_support.rst +++ b/lib/spack/docs/module_file_support.rst @@ -275,10 +275,12 @@ of the installed software. For instance, in the snippet below: set: BAR: 'bar' # This anonymous spec selects any package that - # depends on openmpi. The double colon at the + # depends on mpi. The double colon at the # end clears the set of rules that matched so far. - ^openmpi:: + ^mpi:: environment: + prepend_path: + PATH: '{^mpi.prefix}/bin' set: BAR: 'baz' # Selects any zlib package @@ -293,7 +295,9 @@ of the installed software. For instance, in the snippet below: - FOOBAR you are instructing Spack to set the environment variable ``BAR=bar`` for every module, -unless the associated spec satisfies ``^openmpi`` in which case ``BAR=baz``. +unless the associated spec satisfies the abstract dependency ``^mpi`` in which case +``BAR=baz``, and the directory containing the respective MPI executables is prepended +to the ``PATH`` variable. In addition in any spec that satisfies ``zlib`` the value ``foo`` will be prepended to ``LD_LIBRARY_PATH`` and in any spec that satisfies ``zlib%gcc@4.8`` the variable ``FOOBAR`` will be unset. |