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Added support for --fail-fast install option to terminate on first failure

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Tamara Dahlgren
2020-03-09 15:52:13 -07:00
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@@ -4167,16 +4167,23 @@ want to clean up the temporary directory, or if the package isn't
downloading properly, you might want to run *only* the ``fetch`` stage
of the build.
Spack performs best-effort installation of package dependencies by default,
which means it will continue to install as many dependencies as possible
after detecting failures. If you are trying to install a package with a
lot of dependencies where one or more may fail to build, you might want to
try the ``--fail-fast`` option to stop the installation process on the first
failure.
A typical package workflow might look like this:
.. code-block:: console
$ spack edit mypackage
$ spack install mypackage
$ spack install --fail-fast mypackage
... build breaks! ...
$ spack clean mypackage
$ spack edit mypackage
$ spack install mypackage
$ spack install --fail-fast mypackage
... repeat clean/install until install works ...
Below are some commands that will allow you some finer-grained