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-rw-r--r--lib/spack/spack/multimethod.py12
-rw-r--r--lib/spack/spack/test/multimethod.py8
2 files changed, 17 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}" % (
diff --git a/lib/spack/spack/test/multimethod.py b/lib/spack/spack/test/multimethod.py
index 90948f010c..fbcc70afe8 100644
--- a/lib/spack/spack/test/multimethod.py
+++ b/lib/spack/spack/test/multimethod.py
@@ -118,3 +118,11 @@ def test_virtual_dep_match(builtin_mock):
pkg = spack.repo.get('multimethod^mpich@1.0')
assert pkg.different_by_virtual_dep() == 1
+
+
+def test_multimethod_with_base_class(builtin_mock):
+ pkg = spack.repo.get('multimethod@3')
+ assert pkg.base_method() == "subclass_method"
+
+ pkg = spack.repo.get('multimethod@1')
+ assert pkg.base_method() == "base_method"