Re: msysGit and SCons: broken?

From: Dirk Süsserott <newsletter@dirk.my1.cc>
Date: Aug 6, 2009, 19:45 UTC
Message-ID: <4A7B32EA.2080505@dirk.my1.cc>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0908040010220.8306@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

Am 04.08.2009 00:13 schrieb Johannes Schindelin:

> On Mon, 3 Aug 2009, Dirk Süsserott wrote:
> 
> I suspect the appropriate mailing list would have been the msysGit list, 
> then.

Sorry, next time I'll have a look there, but I'm more familiar with this list. :-)

> How does your SCons call relate to Git?  Do you call it from the Git Bash?  
> Do you call it from cmd.exe directly?  Is Git/bash in your PATH?

My SCons call doesn't actually relate to Git. I just use the Git-bash as my favorite shell under Windows. It's by far better than the regular cmd.exe. Despite I'm using Windows, I'm a "shell person" and prefer not to use only my index finger to direct the computer :-). Git-bash gives that opportunity.

I used to call SCons from Git-bash and it worked. After Git's upgrade (or some other unknown change) I did the same and it didn't work from Git-bash, but it still worked from cmd.exe. Git-bash ist not in my PATH when I run cmd.exe.

Don't bother, I just posed the question and hoped someone says "yeah, I faced the same problem and solved it like this: ...". I'll use a workaround and post a solution if I find one.

     Dirk