From 514f1acdb06c1648812fec180b61f666fbf429d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Todd Gamblin <tgamblin@llnl.gov>
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 00:55:05 -0700
Subject: Default SYS_TYPE should just be an unknown architecture.

---
 lib/spack/spack/architecture.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

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)
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