Re: msysGit and SCons: broken?

["Dirk Süsserott" <newsletter@dirk.my1.cc>]

Am 06.08.2009 21:45 schrieb Dirk Süsserott:
> Am 04.08.2009 00:13 schrieb Johannes Schindelin:
>> On Mon, 3 Aug 2009, Dirk Süsserott wrote:
>>
>> 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?
> 
> 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.

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:/'). Scons tries to split the PATH apart to figure out which
tools are installed. ActivePython thinks ';' is the right separator and
then fails. Thus, I wrote a wrapper to call Scons after manipulating the
$PATH variable by first exchanging the separator and then exchanging
'/c/' with 'c:/'.

Funny, though, that my things worked a few weeks ago *without* this
wrapper. Dunno why. At least it hasn't anything to do with my Git
update. I proved that by installing earlier versions of Git.

	Dirk