[qmtest] running qmtest on bash in cygwin...

[Mark Mitchell]

On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 13:13, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
> just for the record, as Nathaniel told me the problem may be
> related to cygwin's sub-process handling, and suggested I use
> the win32 python installation instead...
> 
> I installed a 'native' python version, and then run
> 'configure --with-python=/cygdrive/c/python22/python'.
> However, even though configure detects now the 'win32' python
> executable, this knowledge gets lost. 'make install' will
> install the qm package in /usr/local/lib/python2.2/...
> (the path of the cygwin python version). Further, qmtest doesn't
> remember the python version either, so I have to set the QM_PYTHON
> variable.
> 
> What is the correct way to make qmtest work with the win32 python
> installation ?

We've never tried using the Cygwin version of Python, so I can't speak
to that.  It might work, but there are places where QMTest makes
OS-dependent decisions, and it may be that it would use Windows behavior
where it should use UNIX-like behavior.

We do use the native Windows version of Python regularly.  The build
process we use can be found in scripts/qm-release.  See the build_exec
function for how we build the Windows binary releases.

Thanks,

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Mark Mitchell
CodeSourcery, LLC
mark at codesourcery.com