[cctbxbb] build problem on ubuntu 12.04

[Nathaniel Echols]

On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Oleg Dolomanov <oleg at olexsys.org> wrote:
> Oh, I missed an important fact - platform() MUST! return a best default, if
> it fails, it causes exit(1), (according to Alastair's stack trace)  that
> cannot be caught anyway (unless you override it beforehand like sys.abort =
> dummy , sys.exit= dummy),

Oh, gross.  What about James's suggestion?  I had found that before
and completely forgot, but it seems like the most universal solution
so far.

-Nat