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-rw-r--r--lib/spack/spack/cmd/__init__.py5
-rw-r--r--lib/spack/spack/test/cmd/common/arguments.py18
2 files changed, 22 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/spack/spack/cmd/__init__.py b/lib/spack/spack/cmd/__init__.py
index 9dd6dc4c6e..fe0ed0c224 100644
--- a/lib/spack/spack/cmd/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/spack/spack/cmd/__init__.py
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import spack.paths
import spack.spec
import spack.store
import spack.util.spack_json as sjson
+import spack.util.string
from spack.error import SpackError
@@ -134,7 +135,9 @@ def parse_specs(args, **kwargs):
tests = kwargs.get('tests', False)
try:
- sargs = args if isinstance(args, six.string_types) else ' '.join(args)
+ sargs = args
+ if not isinstance(args, six.string_types):
+ sargs = ' '.join(spack.util.string.quote(args))
specs = spack.spec.parse(sargs)
for spec in specs:
if concretize:
diff --git a/lib/spack/spack/test/cmd/common/arguments.py b/lib/spack/spack/test/cmd/common/arguments.py
index 2d32342c1b..82ae495611 100644
--- a/lib/spack/spack/test/cmd/common/arguments.py
+++ b/lib/spack/spack/test/cmd/common/arguments.py
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import multiprocessing
import pytest
+import spack.cmd
import spack.cmd.common.arguments as arguments
import spack.config
@@ -62,3 +63,20 @@ def test_negative_integers_not_allowed_for_parallel_jobs(parser):
parser.parse_args(['-j', '-2'])
assert 'expected a positive integer' in str(exc_info.value)
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize('specs,expected_variants,unexpected_variants', [
+ (['coreutils', 'cflags=-O3 -g'], [], ['g']),
+ (['coreutils', 'cflags=-O3', '-g'], ['g'], []),
+])
+@pytest.mark.regression('12951')
+def test_parse_spec_flags_with_spaces(
+ specs, expected_variants, unexpected_variants
+):
+ spec_list = spack.cmd.parse_specs(specs)
+ assert len(spec_list) == 1
+
+ s = spec_list.pop()
+
+ assert all(x not in s.variants for x in unexpected_variants)
+ assert all(x in s.variants for x in expected_variants)