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[Harish Narayanan <harish.mlists@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/23/10 12:50 PM, 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.

Try out what I've pushed recently and see if it works.

Harish