visit-dav
there are many many places where processor arch each with their own list of arches
Describe the bug
When reviewing Mark's thorough PR to add arm64 arch support, I was surprised at the amount of places we have processor arch here were two of the surprises:
src/common/misc/InstallationFunctions.C
Many of these look very old and we are missing new ones (ppc64le) I think this was used to download new versions of VisIt from the GUI. I don't think that is supported well, so maybe we don't need this function anymore?
https://github.com/visit-dav/visit/blob/develop/src/test/tests/unit/launcher.py In this case, maybe there isn't much to suggest. I guess we could provide a Python API call that lists all the valid archs.
Related but already resolve:
We had an issue with launch on rzansel that was due to ppc64le case missing.
Just to be clear, all the instances I found and changed were based on textual analysis (e.g. grep) and not on any specific functionality failing other than install paths having incorrect architecture moniker. So, there is a chance that some of my changes were to obsolete or otherwise irrlevant code. It was just easier for me to fix everything I could find than try to figure out which instances correlate with which functionality.
We should investigate how these are used and clean this up for 3.5.0.
