From 618571b807f32bd3ebbd1c2c5351fbac7cab2f76 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Todd Gamblin <tgamblin@llnl.gov>
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 17:57:27 -0700
Subject: Checkpoint commit: much-improved spec class.

Still organizing things.
---
 bin/spack | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

(limited to 'bin')

diff --git a/bin/spack b/bin/spack
index 8386adaa37..a4cd169bf1 100755
--- a/bin/spack
+++ b/bin/spack
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ sys.path.insert(0, SPACK_LIB_PATH)
 del SPACK_FILE, SPACK_PREFIX, SPACK_LIB_PATH
 import spack
 import spack.tty as tty
+from spack.error import SpackError
 
 # Command parsing
 parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
@@ -50,5 +51,12 @@ spack.debug = args.debug
 command = spack.cmd.get_command(args.command)
 try:
     command(parser, args)
+except SpackError, e:
+    if spack.debug:
+        # In debug mode, raise with a full stack trace.
+        raise
+    else:
+        # Otherwise print a nice simple message.
+        tty.die(e.message)
 except KeyboardInterrupt:
     tty.die("Got a keyboard interrupt from the user.")
-- 
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