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[Harish Narayanan <harish.mlists@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/23/10 12:44 PM, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 12:41 +0530, Harish Narayanan wrote:
>> On 8/23/10 12:39 PM, noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>>> revno: 435
>>> committer: Garth N. Wells <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> branch nick: dorsal
>>> timestamp: Mon 2010-08-23 08:05:36 +0100
>>> message:
>>>   Remove SCOTCH from Fedeora 13 because of silly Scotch build system.
>>>
>>>   Can we get Dorsal to choose the appropriate Scotch makefile
>> automatically?
>>>
>>>   Removing Scotch from the list of packages will cause a problem if
>> the user has the Scotch rpm package installed.
>>> modified:
>>>   FEniCS/platforms/supported/fedora13.platform
>>
>> What is the problem with it now? It can be done (using platform sniff,
>> again), but why do you not want the one line in there to help Dorsal
>> pick the right scotch makefile?
>>
> 
> It breaks on OSs that come in 32 and 64 bit flavours. 

OK, then the fix is the following.

Use guess_architecture() in dorsal.sh to figure out if it is 32/64-bit
and do the appropriate thing.

Harish