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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/spack/spack/spec.py | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/spack/spack/spec.py b/lib/spack/spack/spec.py index 94d881da28..28cd6a0274 100644 --- a/lib/spack/spack/spec.py +++ b/lib/spack/spack/spec.py @@ -461,12 +461,17 @@ class Spec(object): def _set_architecture(self, architecture): """Called by the parser to set the architecture.""" if self.architecture: raise DuplicateArchitectureError( - "Spec for '%s' cannot have two architectures." % self.name) + "Spec for '%s' cannot have two architectures." % self.name) if '-' in architecture: os, target = architecture.split('-') + elif architecture == 'frontend' or architecture == 'backend': os = architecture target = architecture + else: + os = None + target = architecture + self.architecture = spack.architecture.Arch(os, target) |