From 4cac885bd01236da2656e7df6a38750338a8eb83 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Philip	Eisenlohr <eisenlohr@egr.msu.edu>
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 12:59:51 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] added function to find out shared library path of most recent
 Mentat release

---
 lib/msc_tools.py | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/msc_tools.py b/lib/msc_tools.py
index 35da5b30d..0a99d571e 100644
--- a/lib/msc_tools.py
+++ b/lib/msc_tools.py
@@ -1,5 +1,36 @@
 class MSC_TOOLS():
     import os,string
+
+    releases = { \
+                '2010.2':['linux64',''],
+                '2010':  ['linux64',''],
+                '2008r1':[''],
+                '2007r1':[''],
+                '2005r3':[''],
+               }
+
+    def library_paths(self):
+      import os
+
+      thePath = ''
+      try:                                        # check for MSC.Mentat installation location
+        file = open(os.path.join(os.getenv('DAMASK_ROOT'),'lib/pathinfo'))
+        for line in file.readlines():
+          if line.split()[0] == 'MSC': MSCpath = os.path.normpath(line.split()[1])
+        file.close()
+      except:
+        MSCpath = '/msc'
+      
+      for release,subdirs in sorted(self.releases.items(),reverse=True):
+        for subdir in subdirs:
+          libPath = '%s/mentat%s/shlib/%s'%(MSCpath,release,subdir)
+          if os.path.exists(libPath):
+            thePath = libPath
+            break
+          else:
+            continue
+        break
+      return thePath
     
     def submit_job(self,
                  run_marc_path='/msc/marc2010/tools/',