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

On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 12:47 +0530, Harish Narayanan wrote:
> 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.
> 

Not quiet that simple - we need to map the OS and the number of bits to
a specific Makefile. I'm not going to bother with it - I'll remove
Scotch from Linux platforms unless someone wants to sort it out.

Garth  

> Harish