spack/lib
Todd Gamblin 0c44a9a504
bugfix: make compiler preferences slightly saner (#17590)
* bugfix: make compiler preferences slightly saner

This fixes two issues with the way we currently select compilers.

If multiple compilers have the same "id" (os/arch/compiler/version), we
currently prefer them by picking this one with the most supported
languages.  This can have some surprising effects:

* If you have no `gfortran` but you have `gfortran-8`, you can detect
  `clang` that has no configured C compiler -- just `f77` and `f90`. This
  happens frequently on macOS with homebrew. The bug is due to some
  kludginess about the way we detect mixed `clang`/`gfortran`.

* We can prefer suffixed versions of compilers to non-suffixed versions,
  which means we may select `clang-gpu` over `clang` at LLNL. But,
  `clang-gpu` is not actually clang, and it can break builds. We should
  prefer `clang` if it's available.

- [x] prefer compilers that have C compilers and prefer no name variation
  to variation.

* tests: add test for which()
2020-07-21 18:48:37 -07:00
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spack bugfix: make compiler preferences slightly saner (#17590) 2020-07-21 18:48:37 -07:00