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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/spack/spack/multimethod.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/spack/spack/multimethod.py | 12 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/spack/spack/multimethod.py b/lib/spack/spack/multimethod.py index 4e2fb3bdaa..67737c8bed 100644 --- a/lib/spack/spack/multimethod.py +++ b/lib/spack/spack/multimethod.py @@ -128,10 +128,16 @@ class SpecMultiMethod(object): if self.default: return self.default(package_self, *args, **kwargs) + else: - raise NoSuchMethodError( - type(package_self), self.__name__, spec, - [m[0] for m in self.method_list]) + superclass = super(package_self.__class__, package_self) + superclass_fn = getattr(superclass, self.__name__, None) + if callable(superclass_fn): + return superclass_fn(*args, **kwargs) + else: + raise NoSuchMethodError( + type(package_self), self.__name__, spec, + [m[0] for m in self.method_list]) def __str__(self): return "SpecMultiMethod {\n\tdefault: %s,\n\tspecs: %s\n}" % ( |