Re: Re: GCC 4.4.0 & binutils v2.19.1 available

On Tue, 05 May 2009 22:01:33 +1000, Andrew MacIntyre wrote:

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>Dave Yeo wrote:
>> On Sun, 03 May 2009 19:01:19 +1000, Andrew MacIntyre wrote:
>> 
>>> Dave Yeo wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm still trying to get the fate suite to run on OS/2 and have got
>>>> quite a bit further then last we talked about it. Python doesn't seem
>>>> to like cmd.exe builtin commands
>>> Are you able to spell out a bit more about this issue?
>> 
>> The scripts etc are located at http://fate.multimedia.cx/running.html.
>> We need a newer python then yours for sqlite3 support.
>> I tried changing the compile line in fateconfig.py-example so the
>> beginning was
>> "rm -rf %BUILD_PATH% && mkdir %BUILD_PATH% && cd %BUILD_PATH% ...
>> The build would fail and %BUILD_PATH% was never created. Replacing
>> mkdir with /bin/mkdir fixed that. Unluckily it will not cd into
>> %BUILD_PATH%
>> I have tried various shells, different directory seperators and quoting
>> with a ^ without luck.
>> Finally had success by breaking the cd into multiple commands each not
>> having a path seperator ... cd fate && cd build ...
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>Having been inside Python's subprocess standard library module recently,
>I'm fairly confident that Python isn't the problem unless it relates to
>choice of path separator.
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