Re: msvc and vista fun

On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 10:06:57AM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> 
> 
> Magnus Hagander wrote:
> >
> >Can you run the build in "broken mode" but *without* using the buildfarm
> >scripts, and see what errorlevel you get? Meaning:
> >build.bat
> >... wait ...
> >echo %errorlevel%
> >
> >It should output 1 if that part works, 0 if it fails. That'll tell us if
> >the problem is in the bf or if it's in the actual build system.
> >
> >
> >  
> 
> It fails and says 1.
> 
> Now, if I change the build script so it says
> 
>  exit %E
> 
> instead of
> 
>  exit /b %E

That's just weird :-( And making that change makes the script unusable from
the commandline.


> I pick up the exit status just fine. I wonder if wer have different 
> flavors of command interpreter? (My perl is the latest one from 
> ActiveState, btw. I assume you're using that.)

cmd.exe from Windows - I assume you haven't installed some funky addon
special command interpreter? In that case, it should be the same. So I
have:
Microsoft Windows [Version 5.2.3790]
(C) Copyright 1985-2003 Microsoft Corp.


As for perl, I'm probably not on the very latest, but it's not so old. I'm
on:
This is perl, v5.8.8 built for MSWin32-x64-multi-thread
(with 33 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)


Dave - what version are you on?


> Can we change that or make it switchable? I'd be happy to provide an 
> environment variable like RUNNING_BUILDFARM if that would help.

We could, but it seems very ugly. And again, it's *not* required for
buildfarm on my or Daves machines. So I'd rather like to know why it's
actually happening than just blindly change it.

//Magnus