diff --git a/lib/spack/docs/basic_usage.rst b/lib/spack/docs/basic_usage.rst index dbad0a9f6d2..44052ddbe89 100644 --- a/lib/spack/docs/basic_usage.rst +++ b/lib/spack/docs/basic_usage.rst @@ -543,11 +543,12 @@ More formally, a spec consists of the following pieces: * ``+`` or ``-`` or ``~`` Optional variant specifiers (``+debug``, ``-qt``, or ``~qt``) for boolean variants * ``name=`` Optional variant specifiers that are not restricted to -boolean variants + boolean variants * ``name=`` Optional compiler flag specifiers. Valid flag names are -``cflags``, ``cxxflags``, ``fflags``, ``cppflags``, ``ldflags``, and ``ldlibs``. + ``cflags``, ``cxxflags``, ``fflags``, ``cppflags``, ``ldflags``, and ``ldlibs``. * ``target= os=`` Optional architecture specifier -(``target=haswell os=CNL10``) * ``^`` Dependency specs (``^callpath@1.1``) + (``target=haswell os=CNL10``) +* ``^`` Dependency specs (``^callpath@1.1``) There are two things to notice here. The first is that specs are recursively defined. That is, each dependency after ``^`` is a spec