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-rw-r--r--lib/spack/spack/cmd/create.py4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/spack/spack/cmd/create.py b/lib/spack/spack/cmd/create.py
index 239f75b996..d8507d1108 100644
--- a/lib/spack/spack/cmd/create.py
+++ b/lib/spack/spack/cmd/create.py
@@ -438,11 +438,13 @@ class BuildSystemGuesser:
# A list of clues that give us an idea of the build system a package
# uses. If the regular expression matches a file contained in the
# archive, the corresponding build system is assumed.
+ # NOTE: Order is important here. If a package supports multiple
+ # build systems, we choose the first match in this list.
clues = [
+ (r'/CMakeLists\.txt$', 'cmake'),
(r'/configure$', 'autotools'),
(r'/configure\.(in|ac)$', 'autoreconf'),
(r'/Makefile\.am$', 'autoreconf'),
- (r'/CMakeLists\.txt$', 'cmake'),
(r'/SConstruct$', 'scons'),
(r'/waf$', 'waf'),
(r'/setup\.py$', 'python'),