Re: msysGit and SCons: broken?

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Aug 3, 2009, 22:13 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0908040010220.8306@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <4A772A43.8070503@dirk.my1.cc>

Hi,

On Mon, 3 Aug 2009, Dirk Süsserott wrote:

> I'm using Git for Windows (1.6.3.2.1299.gee46c)

I suspect the appropriate mailing list would have been the msysGit list, then.

> and *used to use* SCons as a build tool. Since my last Git-update (from 
> 1.6.1.9.g97c34 to 1.6.3.2.1299.gee46c) SCons doesn't work an longer.

We do not have any SCons (or Python) support in msysGit. If you want it officially supported, I invite you to provide patches to compile and install Python (see the recent work on Perl and Subversion).

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> I'm not exactly sure that the Git upgrade made things worse, but I 
> didn't upgrade neither SCons (0.98) nor Python (ActivePython 2.4) and 
> now they cease to work.
> 
> When running in git-bash, SCons tells me "TypeError: listdir() argument 
> 1 must be (buffer overflow), not str:" and some stack trace.
> 
> When running in native Windows' cmd.exe it works fine.
> 
> Is it somehow possible that the Git upgrade broke python scripts? By 
> setting certain ENV vars or something? I don't want to blame someone for 
> this, really, I'm just trying to track down my problem.

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?

Ciao, Dscho