Improve "makefile" build system documentation (#41781)

Shows how to modify environment variables using
"setup_build_environment" instead of overriding "edit"
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Loris Ercole 2024-01-09 16:44:21 +01:00 committed by GitHub
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@ -88,13 +88,13 @@ command-line. However, Makefiles that use ``?=`` for assignment honor
environment variables. Since Spack already sets ``CC``, ``CXX``, ``F77``,
and ``FC``, you won't need to worry about setting these variables. If
there are any other variables you need to set, you can do this in the
``edit`` method:
``setup_build_environment`` method:
.. code-block:: python
def edit(self, spec, prefix):
env["PREFIX"] = prefix
env["BLASLIB"] = spec["blas"].libs.ld_flags
def setup_build_environment(self, env):
env.set("PREFIX", prefix)
env.set("BLASLIB", spec["blas"].libs.ld_flags)
`cbench <https://github.com/spack/spack/blob/develop/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/cbench/package.py>`_
@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ Edit Makefile
Some Makefiles are just plain stubborn and will ignore command-line
variables. The only way to ensure that these packages build correctly
is to directly edit the Makefile. Spack provides a ``FileFilter`` class
and a ``filter_file`` method to help with this. For example:
and a ``filter`` method to help with this. For example:
.. code-block:: python