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-rw-r--r--lib/spack/spack/architecture.py2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/spack/spack/architecture.py b/lib/spack/spack/architecture.py
index 7fbf1dadcf..9b4c6e576d 100644
--- a/lib/spack/spack/architecture.py
+++ b/lib/spack/spack/architecture.py
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ def sys_type():
# Couldn't determine the sys_type for this machine.
if sys_type is None:
- raise NoSysTypeError()
+ return "unknown_arch"
if not isinstance(sys_type, basestring):
raise InvalidSysTypeError(sys_type)