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diff --git a/lib/spack/docs/known_issues.rst b/lib/spack/docs/known_issues.rst index c45ababc4f..9e64cd63b4 100644 --- a/lib/spack/docs/known_issues.rst +++ b/lib/spack/docs/known_issues.rst @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +.. Copyright 2013-2018 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other + Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details. + + SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT) + ============ Known Issues ============ @@ -5,38 +10,6 @@ Known Issues This is a list of known bugs in Spack. It provides ways of getting around these problems if you encounter them. ------------------------------------------------------------------ -Default variants are not taken into account during concretization ------------------------------------------------------------------ - -**Status:** Expected to be fixed in the next release - -Current concretization algorithm does not take into account default values -of variants when adding extra constraints to the spec via CLI. For example -you may encounter the following error when trying to specify which MPI provider -to use: - -.. code-block:: console - - $ spack install hdf5 ^openmpi - ==> Error: hdf5 does not depend on openmpi - -although the hdf5 package contains: - -.. code-block:: python - - variant('mpi', default=True, description='Enable MPI support') - depends_on('mpi', when='+mpi') - -A workaround is to explicitly activate the variant related to the dependency: - -.. code-block:: console - - $ spack install hdf5+mpi ^openmpi - -See https://github.com/spack/spack/issues/397 for further details. - - --------------------------------------------------- Variants are not properly forwarded to dependencies --------------------------------------------------- @@ -77,26 +50,6 @@ See https://github.com/spack/spack/issues/267 and https://github.com/spack/spack/issues/2546 for further details. ---------------------------------- -``spack extensions`` doesn't work ---------------------------------- - -**Status:** Up for grabs if you want to try to fix it - -Spack provides an ``extensions`` command that lists all available extensions -of a package, the ones that are installed, and the ones that are already -activated. This is very useful in conjunction with ``spack activate``. -Unfortunately, this command no longer works: - -.. code-block:: console - - $ spack extensions python - ==> python@2.7.13%clang@8.0.0-apple~tk~ucs4 arch=darwin-sierra-x86_64 -ckrr4mg has no extensions. - - -See https://github.com/spack/spack/issues/2895 for further details. - - ---------------------------- ``spack setup`` doesn't work ---------------------------- |