From e12e9996e40670c467fc62e5fbc38760c7ec869e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Adam J. Stewart" Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 10:46:00 -0500 Subject: Document commands that no longer work (#3781) --- lib/spack/docs/known_issues.rst | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'lib') diff --git a/lib/spack/docs/known_issues.rst b/lib/spack/docs/known_issues.rst index aad0358cb1..a68033dba6 100644 --- a/lib/spack/docs/known_issues.rst +++ b/lib/spack/docs/known_issues.rst @@ -11,17 +11,17 @@ Default variants are not taken into account during concretization **Status:** Expected to be fixed in the next release -Current conretization algorithm does not take into account default values +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 enounter the following error when trying to specify which MPI provider -to use +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 +although the hdf5 package contains: .. code-block:: python @@ -35,3 +35,36 @@ A workaround is to explicitly activate the variant related to the dependency: $ spack install hdf5+mpi ^openmpi See https://github.com/LLNL/spack/issues/397 for further details. + + +--------------------------------- +``spack extensions`` doesn't work +--------------------------------- + +**Status:** Up for grabs if you want to try to fix it + +Spack provides an ``extensions`` command that lists all available extensions +of a package, the ones that are installed, and the ones that are already +activated. This is very useful in conjunction with ``spack activate``. +Unfortunately, this command no longer works: + +.. code-block:: console + + $ spack extensions python + ==> python@2.7.13%clang@8.0.0-apple~tk~ucs4 arch=darwin-sierra-x86_64 -ckrr4mg has no extensions. + + +See https://github.com/LLNL/spack/issues/2895 for further details. + + +---------------------------- +``spack setup`` doesn't work +---------------------------- + +**Status:** Work in progress + +Spack provides a ``setup`` command that is useful for the development of +software outside of Spack. Unfortunately, this command no longer works. +See https://github.com/LLNL/spack/issues/2597 and +https://github.com/LLNL/spack/issues/2662 for details. This is expected +to be fixed by https://github.com/LLNL/spack/pull/2664. -- cgit v1.2.3-60-g2f50