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-rw-r--r--lib/spack/spack/package.py3
-rw-r--r--lib/spack/spack/relations.py26
2 files changed, 28 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/spack/spack/package.py b/lib/spack/spack/package.py
index 1dfd3d1c83..c256ea479f 100644
--- a/lib/spack/spack/package.py
+++ b/lib/spack/spack/package.py
@@ -314,6 +314,9 @@ class Package(object):
"""Specs of virtual packages provided by this package, keyed by name."""
provided = {}
+ """Specs of packages this one extends, keyed by name."""
+ extendees = {}
+
"""Specs of conflicting packages, keyed by name. """
conflicted = {}
diff --git a/lib/spack/spack/relations.py b/lib/spack/spack/relations.py
index b1f4348945..aaca9c199e 100644
--- a/lib/spack/spack/relations.py
+++ b/lib/spack/spack/relations.py
@@ -107,8 +107,9 @@ def depends_on(*specs):
"""Adds a dependencies local variable in the locals of
the calling class, based on args. """
pkg = get_calling_package_name()
+ clocals = caller_locals()
+ dependencies = clocals.setdefault('dependencies', {})
- dependencies = caller_locals().setdefault('dependencies', {})
for string in specs:
for spec in spack.spec.parse(string):
if pkg == spec.name:
@@ -116,6 +117,29 @@ def depends_on(*specs):
dependencies[spec.name] = spec
+def extends(*specs):
+ """Same as depends_on, but dependency is symlinked into parent prefix.
+
+ This is for Python and other language modules where the module
+ needs to be installed into the prefix of the Python installation.
+ Spack handles this by installing modules into their own prefix,
+ but allowing ONE module version to be symlinked into a parent
+ Python install at a time.
+
+ """
+ pkg = get_calling_package_name()
+ clocals = caller_locals()
+ dependencies = clocals.setdefault('dependencies', {})
+ extendees = clocals.setdefault('extendees', {})
+
+ for string in specs:
+ for spec in spack.spec.parse(string):
+ if pkg == spec.name:
+ raise CircularReferenceError('depends_on', pkg)
+ dependencies[spec.name] = spec
+ extendees[spec.name] = spec
+
+
def provides(*specs, **kwargs):
"""Allows packages to provide a virtual dependency. If a package provides
'mpi', other packages can declare that they depend on "mpi", and spack