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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 08:20:49AM +0100, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> 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

That sounds good to me. Let's remove it from Mac too.

--
Anders