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["Garth N. Wells" <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 10:55 -0400, Paul Barbone wrote:
> Harish Narayanan wrote:
> > On 8/18/10 7:28 PM, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> >   
> >> On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 19:19 +0530, Harish Narayanan wrote:
> >>     
> >>> On 8/18/10 7:17 PM, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> >>>       
> >>>> On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 19:10 +0530, Harish Narayanan wrote:
> >>>>         
> >>>>> 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).
> >>>>>
> >>>>>           
> >>>> It is being called - how can I print, for example, "DISTRO" to check it?
> >>>>         
> >>> echo $DISTRO
> >>>
> >>>       
> >> Where? Inside the function or outside? Inside gives an error, and
> >> placing it outside it result is blank. If I type
> >>
> >>  lsb_release -i -s
> >>
> >> on the command line I get
> >>
> >>   SUSE  LINUX
> >>     
> >
> > On the inside, you do
> >
> > echo $DISTRO
> >
> > On the outside, before the call `guess_platform` which uses its output
> > as a string, you do
> >
> > guess_platform
> >
> > (as in without the backticks.)
> >
> > Harish
> >
> >   
> 
> Garth,
> 
> You might try invoking dorsal.sh with the platform file you want: 
> 
> ./dorsal.sh FEniCS/platforms/paul.platform
> 
> 
> If you suspect a problem might be that dorsal is guessing the wrong 
> platform, you can thus ensure it's using the right platform file, and 
> see if that fixes the problem.  So you can debug without printing 
> guess_platform. 
> 

I managed to fix it - openSUSE starts the lsb_release return string with
a ' " '. 

Garth  

> 
> -Paul
> 
> 
>