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diff --git a/lib/spack/docs/workflows.rst b/lib/spack/docs/workflows.rst index b329a0205c..9ce664b6ca 100644 --- a/lib/spack/docs/workflows.rst +++ b/lib/spack/docs/workflows.rst @@ -284,8 +284,10 @@ have some drawbacks: The ``spack load`` and ``spack module tcl loads`` commands, on the other hand, are not very smart: if the user-supplied spec matches more than one installed package, then ``spack module tcl loads`` will - fail. This may change in the future. For now, the workaround is to - be more specific on any ``spack load`` commands that fail. + fail. This default behavior may change in the future. For now, + the workaround is to either be more specific on any failing ``spack load`` + commands or to use ``spack load --first`` to allow spack to load the + first matching spec. """""""""""""""""""""" @@ -444,7 +446,7 @@ environment. A single-prefix filesystem view is a single directory tree that is the union of the directory hierarchies of a number of installed packages; -it is similar to the directory hiearchy that might exist under +it is similar to the directory hierarchy that might exist under ``/usr/local``. The files of the view's installed packages are brought into the view by symbolic or hard links, referencing the original Spack installation. @@ -1237,7 +1239,7 @@ you can also manually set them in your ``.bashrc``. 2. Other package managers like Homebrew will try to install things to the same directory. If you plan on using Homebrew in conjunction with Spack, don't symlink things to ``/usr/local``. - 3. If you are on a shared workstation, or don't have sudo priveleges, you + 3. If you are on a shared workstation, or don't have sudo privileges, you can't do this. If you still want to do this anyway, there are several ways around SIP. @@ -1467,7 +1469,7 @@ In order to build and run the image, execute: SPACK_ROOT=/usr/local \ FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1 - # install minimal spack depedencies + # install minimal spack dependencies RUN apt-get update \ && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \ autoconf \ |