workarounds for bugs

lib/spack/env/cc

@@ -29,6 +29,11 @@ spack_env_path   = get_path("SPACK_ENV_PATH")
 # Figure out what type of operation we're doing
 command = os.path.basename(sys.argv[0])
 cpp, cc, ccld, ld = range(4)
+
+# TODO: this can to be removed once Jira issue SPACK-16 is resolved
+if command == 'CC':
+    command = 'c++'
+
 if command == 'cpp':
     mode = cpp
 elif command == 'ld':
@@ -90,6 +95,7 @@ for item in ['.'] + spack_env_path:
 os.environ["PATH"] = ":".join(clean_path)
 
 full_command = [command] + arguments
+
 if spack_debug:
     input_log = os.path.join(spack_build_root, 'spack_cc_in.log')
     output_log = os.path.join(spack_build_root, 'spack_cc_out.log')

lib/spack/spack/globals.py

@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@
 
 # Curl tool for fetching files.
 curl = which("curl", required=True)
-curl.add_default_arg("-k") # TODO not good
+curl.add_default_arg("-k") # TODO: remove me in favor of spack -k`
 
 # Whether to build in tmp space or directly in the stage_path.
 # If this is true, then spack will make stage directories in