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Article0 replies3,705 followingPosted 24 Dec 2025, 11:38 UTC71.9K views897 votes

Let Spack Do the Module Work: Using Built‑In Environment Module Generation

Managing multiple software stacks is hard. Spack’s built‑in module generation turns every installed package into a ready‑to‑load modulefile, saving time and reducing errors.

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Article0 replies3,663 followingPosted 08 Mar 2026, 08:45 UTC106.5K views4,960 votes

Spack Modulefiles vs. a Hand-Maintained Module Tree: Choosing an Exposure Strategy

Spack-generated modulefiles, hand-written ones, or raw environment exports? A decision guide keyed to loader format, shared-prefix constraints, and a scratch-prefix validation loop.

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Question0 answers3,403 followingPosted 08 Feb 2025, 12:06 UTC142K views4,871 votes

Spack Tcl and Lua module generation: conflicting modulefile precedence when the same package is built with different compilers

We generate both Tcl and Lua modulefiles for the same Spack installation (0.20+) using spack module tcl generate and spack module lua generate . Several packages exist in multiple variants built with different compilers, and our modules.yaml defines projections and conflict rules that we expect to apply uniformly. The uncertainty is at the integration bounda

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