spack load: default module system

[ax3l]

I searched the docs and etc/ but did not find a way to do the following:

When running spack load and only having lmod configured (in modules.yaml), is there a way configure spack load -m lmod by default so I don't need to pass it? Otherwise it will fail complaining tcl is not available:

$ spack load cmake
spack module loads: error: argument -m/--module-type: invalid choice: 'tcl' choose from:
    lmod
$ spack module loads cmake
# output ok, but does not load the module env
$ spack load -m lmod cmake
# nope, not an option
$ spack module loads -m lmod cmake
# output ok, but does not load the module env

update: oh wait, that does not seem to work with lmod at all ... (I used module load directly with lmod before).

[adamjstewart]

@alalazo

[alalazo]

spack load is currently based on tcl and it makes little sense to base it on other module systems, since the syntax with which you interact is that of Spack specs. Actually there's an effort on-going which I fully endorse to make it module-free, see #14062 Closing

[ax3l]

Thanks, didn't know load works on tcl only! :)