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diff --git a/lib/spack/docs/packaging_guide.rst b/lib/spack/docs/packaging_guide.rst index c1077e4497..519c0da232 100644 --- a/lib/spack/docs/packaging_guide.rst +++ b/lib/spack/docs/packaging_guide.rst @@ -1844,6 +1844,20 @@ dedicated process. .. _prefix-objects: + +Failing the build +---------------------- + +Sometimes you don't want a package to successfully install unless some +condition is true. You can explicitly cause the build to fail from +``install()`` by raising an ``InstallError``, for example: + +.. code-block:: python + + if spec.architecture.startswith('darwin'): + raise InstallError('This package does not build on Mac OS X!') + + Prefix objects ---------------------- |