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-rw-r--r--lib/spack/spack/main.py10
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/spack/spack/main.py b/lib/spack/spack/main.py
index 7e84be5781..998d0e2022 100644
--- a/lib/spack/spack/main.py
+++ b/lib/spack/spack/main.py
@@ -528,6 +528,12 @@ def make_argument_parser(**kwargs):
help="add stacktraces to all printed statements",
)
parser.add_argument(
+ "--backtrace",
+ action="store_true",
+ default="SPACK_BACKTRACE" in os.environ,
+ help="always show backtraces for exceptions",
+ )
+ parser.add_argument(
"-V", "--version", action="store_true", help="show version number and exit"
)
parser.add_argument(
@@ -561,8 +567,10 @@ def setup_main_options(args):
# debug must be set first so that it can even affect behavior of
# errors raised by spack.config.
+ if args.debug or args.backtrace:
+ spack.error.debug = True
+
if args.debug:
- spack.error.debug = args.debug
spack.util.debug.register_interrupt_handler()
spack.config.set("config:debug", True, scope="command_line")
spack.util.environment.tracing_enabled = True