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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/spack/spack/spec.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/spack/spack/spec.py | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/spack/spack/spec.py b/lib/spack/spack/spec.py index e796b45e9b..a2112c060a 100644 --- a/lib/spack/spack/spec.py +++ b/lib/spack/spack/spec.py @@ -702,7 +702,8 @@ def _libs_default_handler(descriptor, spec, cls): """Default handler when looking for the 'libs' attribute. Tries to search for ``lib{spec.name}`` recursively starting from - ``spec.prefix``. + ``spec.prefix``. If ``spec.name`` starts with ``lib``, searches for + ``{spec.name}`` instead. Parameters: descriptor (ForwardQueryToPackage): descriptor that triggered the call @@ -727,7 +728,11 @@ def _libs_default_handler(descriptor, spec, cls): # depending on which one exists (there is a possibility, of course, to # get something like 'libabcXabc.so, but for now we consider this # unlikely). - name = 'lib' + spec.name.replace('-', '?') + name = spec.name.replace('-', '?') + + # Avoid double 'lib' for packages whose names already start with lib + if not name.startswith('lib'): + name = 'lib' + name # To speedup the search for external packages configured e.g. in /usr, # perform first non-recursive search in prefix.lib then in prefix.lib64 and |