From 5f10d9239ba3b982a0a6ff00559e3e4fa94c7da7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Adam J. Stewart" Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2018 15:56:45 -0500 Subject: Remove default variant bug from list of known issues (#8900) --- lib/spack/docs/known_issues.rst | 32 -------------------------------- 1 file changed, 32 deletions(-) (limited to 'lib') diff --git a/lib/spack/docs/known_issues.rst b/lib/spack/docs/known_issues.rst index 899f6addac..fff2cd8d08 100644 --- a/lib/spack/docs/known_issues.rst +++ b/lib/spack/docs/known_issues.rst @@ -5,38 +5,6 @@ Known Issues This is a list of known bugs in Spack. It provides ways of getting around these problems if you encounter them. ------------------------------------------------------------------ -Default variants are not taken into account during concretization ------------------------------------------------------------------ - -**Status:** Expected to be fixed in the next release - -Current concretization algorithm does not take into account default values -of variants when adding extra constraints to the spec via CLI. For example -you may encounter the following error when trying to specify which MPI provider -to use: - -.. code-block:: console - - $ spack install hdf5 ^openmpi - ==> Error: hdf5 does not depend on openmpi - -although the hdf5 package contains: - -.. code-block:: python - - variant('mpi', default=True, description='Enable MPI support') - depends_on('mpi', when='+mpi') - -A workaround is to explicitly activate the variant related to the dependency: - -.. code-block:: console - - $ spack install hdf5+mpi ^openmpi - -See https://github.com/spack/spack/issues/397 for further details. - - --------------------------------------------------- Variants are not properly forwarded to dependencies --------------------------------------------------- -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2