[8442] in athena10
Re: Maple launch from menu fails on 64 bit machines
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Benjamin Kaduk)
Fri Sep 16 23:20:31 2011
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 23:20:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU>
To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
cc: debathena@MIT.EDU
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On Fri, 16 Sep 2011, Alex T Prengel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I forgot to bring this up at release-team today. On 64 bit machines,
> Applications -> MIT Software -> Maple fails to launch Maple because the
> launch command is set to "maple" which doesn't work on 64 bit machines
> (it invokes an older, Motif-based GUI). Changing it to "maple.java"
> should work (this invokes the newer Java-based GUI)- and that also works
> on 32 bit machines.
Hmm, do we have 32-bit machines to test things like this on?
The deployed clusters are all 64-bit, of course ... how about the test
cluster(s)? It looks like opus in the SIPB office is 32-bit, so that
should be enough for Geoff or me to test such a change pre-commit, I
guess.
-Ben
