Re: msysGit and SCons: broken?

From: Dirk Süsserott <newsletter@dirk.my1.cc>
Date: Aug 15, 2009, 14:04 UTC
Message-ID: <4A86C06C.3060409@dirk.my1.cc>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0908132353380.8306@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

Am 13.08.2009 23:54 schrieb Johannes Schindelin:

> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Dirk Süsserott wrote:
>

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>> If someone had the same or a similar problem: I tracked it down and 
>> found a solution. The problem was that I tried to run a Windows program 
>> from git-bash. The Windows program then faces the bash's $PATH with a 
>> different separator (':' vs. ';') and a different root directory ('/c/' 
>> vs. 'C:/').
> 
> I cannot believe that.  I actually run a Windows program very often, from 
> Git Bash, and PATH is correctly converted all the time.
> 
> Ciao,
> Dscho

Hmm, I wrote a simple "hello $PATH" and it actually DID print the path in Windows' flavour when started from Git Bash, like you said. Dunno why ActivePython ceased to do so as well... Probably I confused my machine by extending PATH in Windows and .bashrc with different PATHs in different order. Or ActivePython is somehow "zickig" (what's that in english? :-)). However, now it works for me and as SCons is the only tool that failed, I see no further need for investigation. Btw., I started scons from Git Bash with

   cmd //c C:/Python24/Scripts/scons.bat "$@"

Maybe that's a problem, but I don't care any longer.

Dirk