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[Harish Narayanan <harish.mlists@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/23/10 2:14 PM, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 13:29 +0530, Harish Narayanan wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> 
> Small problem - Scotch uses 'x86-64' (dash) and ${ARCH} gives
> 'x86_64' (underscore).

Argh!

(And it is actually nice to have more than one active committer on the
project to pass the buck stuff like this.)

Harish