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-rw-r--r--lib/spack/spack/spec.py8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/spack/spack/spec.py b/lib/spack/spack/spec.py
index 0a55ec5d76..57dd0c2181 100644
--- a/lib/spack/spack/spec.py
+++ b/lib/spack/spack/spec.py
@@ -461,7 +461,13 @@ class Spec(object):
"""Called by the parser to set the architecture."""
if self.architecture: raise DuplicateArchitectureError(
"Spec for '%s' cannot have two architectures." % self.name)
- self.architecture = architecture # a string can be set
+ platform = spack.architecture.sys_type()
+ if '-' in architecture:
+ os, target = architecture.split('-')
+ else:
+ os = architecture
+ target = None
+ self.architecture = spack.architecture.Arch(platform, os, target)
def _add_dependency(self, spec):