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

[Mark Mitchell]

On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 12:54, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
> Mark Mitchell wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> just from looking at the GNUMakefile, I see that the version of python
> being used decides also whether to install the qmtest (cygwin shell)
> script or the qmtest.bat batch file. Does this really make sense ?

I'm not sure.  We don't want to key off of config.guess output, because
that will always indicate Cygwin, even when using the native Win32
Python.  Ideally, we'd like to get rid of the shell script/batch file
that is used to bootstrap QMTest, but that's another project...

> As I didn't manage to run qmtest with the cywin python (see the other
> post), I'm now trying the win32 python. However, my build system is
> still cygwin based, so I still want to run qmtest from a cygwin shell.

It should work to use the shell script; you could hack up the
GNUmakefile to use that version.  We'd certainly like if QMTest worked 
under Cygwin, but we haven't tried to do that.  There are probably other
things that will need to change if you use the Cygwin Python; for
example, platform_win32.py should probably not be used in that
environment.

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