diff --git a/bin/spack b/bin/spack index ec6a80ff02..a0b260ccaf 100755 --- a/bin/spack +++ b/bin/spack @@ -89,6 +89,8 @@ spec expressions: parser.add_argument('-d', '--debug', action='store_true', help="Write out debug logs during compile") +parser.add_argument('-D', '--pdb', action='store_true', + help="Run spack under the pdb debugger") parser.add_argument('-k', '--insecure', action='store_true', help="Do not check ssl certificates when downloading.") parser.add_argument('-m', '--mock', action='store_true', @@ -159,5 +161,8 @@ def main(): if args.profile: import cProfile cProfile.run('main()', sort='tottime') +elif args.pdb: + import pdb + pdb.run('main()') else: main()