Compiler find docs (#831)

* docs: mention `spack compiler find`

* docs: fix some weird wording.
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Ben Boeckel 2016-04-26 13:00:54 -04:00 committed by Todd Gamblin
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@ -372,25 +372,32 @@ how this is done is in :ref:`sec-specs`.
``spack compiler add``
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
An alias for ``spack compiler find``.
.. _spack-compiler-find:
``spack compiler find``
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
If you do not see a compiler in this list, but you want to use it with
Spack, you can simply run ``spack compiler add`` with the path to
Spack, you can simply run ``spack compiler find`` with the path to
where the compiler is installed. For example::
$ spack compiler add /usr/local/tools/ic-13.0.079
$ spack compiler find /usr/local/tools/ic-13.0.079
==> Added 1 new compiler to /Users/gamblin2/.spack/compilers.yaml
intel@13.0.079
Or you can run ``spack compiler add`` with no arguments to force
Or you can run ``spack compiler find`` with no arguments to force
auto-detection. This is useful if you do not know where compilers are
installed, but you know that new compilers have been added to your
``PATH``. For example, using dotkit, you might do this::
$ module load gcc-4.9.0
$ spack compiler add
$ spack compiler find
==> Added 1 new compiler to /Users/gamblin2/.spack/compilers.yaml
gcc@4.9.0
This loads the environment module for gcc-4.9.0 to get it into the
This loads the environment module for gcc-4.9.0 to add it to
``PATH``, and then it adds the compiler to Spack.
.. _spack-compiler-info: