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[Harish Narayanan <harish.mlists@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/18/10 7:08 PM, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 19:03 +0530, Harish Narayanan wrote:
>> On 8/18/10 6:54 PM, Garth N. Wells wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 13:16 +0000, noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> revno: 378
>>>> committer: Garth N. Wells <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> branch nick: dorsal
>>>> timestamp: Wed 2010-08-18 14:14:01 +0100
>>>> message:
>>>>   Add openSSUE 11.3
>>>
>>> Unfortunately this doesn't work. 
>>
>> I think this is because the relevant platform file is missing.
>>
> 
> I have it - just haven't pushed it yet.
> 
>>> How can I get some screen output from inside the function
>>> 'guess_platform' in dorsal.sh?
>>
>> You can't use echo as usual because there is a line outside that catches
>> whatever it prints.
>>
>> PLATFORM=${PROJECT}/platforms/`guess_platform`.platform
>>
>> Instead, just insert a guess_platform anywhere, so it will print
>> whatever guess_platform prints.
>>
> 
> I prints nothing - that's why I need to somehow debug the function. How
> can I do that if I can't print anything?

I guess this means none of the case branches are being followed. Just do
an echo right at the top somewhere and it should print (if called).

> Ever considered Python-ising Dorsal?? ;)

Never! (:

Harish