From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Packham Subject: Re: windows smoke tester (was Re: What's cooking in git.git (Aug 2010, #02; Wed, 11)) Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:42:08 -0700 Message-ID: <4C65E660.9030707@gmail.com> References: <7vlj8cvi2e.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <4C63BD9B.6000608@viscovery.net> <4C64308D.8030000@gmail.com> <4C647360.50304@gmail.com> <4C647C85.2080109@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Johannes Sixt , git@vger.kernel.org, kusmabite@gmail.com To: =?UTF-8?B?w4Z2YXIgQXJuZmrDtnLDsCBCamFybWFzb24=?= X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Aug 14 02:42:15 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ok4pD-0002tZ-4M for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Aug 2010 02:42:15 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752696Ab0HNAmJ convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:42:09 -0400 Received: from mail-px0-f174.google.com ([209.85.212.174]:54000 "EHLO mail-px0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752406Ab0HNAmI (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:42:08 -0400 Received: by pxi10 with SMTP id 10so999320pxi.19 for ; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:42:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=3IkkSBJAYolg4fFYB4BRioyEZ2To0Sk8syE7Gd7cDVk=; b=BdKAPkNoHmrsodU7jMAAJB5nfNw6iFdIoncVvl8PRonKCNE2CRCmsUtInSISZRcDni XokhQlGaqAgdmNl2R5Q6Wm8KZiPWPfSwBx6kAR8jcI1v6r7/wUMUCuM89ajyJBnPZB/v ipiHoKR1WDr6HOCpce9e1Gw7cI9ZVmcrViV+s= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=oCfaa86pPktHCsXnlqoc0oW1XdlG2NsulgC2JQCVvs8Sl2ZtOenfY69M0YB6AR50Zf zQPLge006KwI7EPwkd0hbq3XU2mVcB1WQp/+6c0AzJ4BgrKptXa0z7if72P58U8IA30S MzR/Y/16E6r2LaEnMU43BzbjLEnvLlt+j4sF8= Received: by 10.115.109.6 with SMTP id l6mr2534466wam.164.1281746528133; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:42:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from laptop.site (209-234-175-66.static.twtelecom.net [209.234.175.66]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d38sm5653189wam.8.2010.08.13.17.42.06 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:42:06 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100714 SUSE/3.0.6 Thunderbird/3.0.6 In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 12/08/10 18:01, =C3=86var Arnfj=C3=B6r=C3=B0 Bjarmason wrote: > If it comes with its own perl it should also have a cpan shell: >=20 > perl -MCPAN -e 'install TAP::Harness::Archive' >=20 > That should be easier than installing strawberry in addition to the > mingw perl. OK this is me officially giving up on windows (or at least this particular windows box). I couldn't install any perl modules with the environment provided by msysgit, I couldn't make msys play nice with strawberry perl. In desperation I tried cygwin and again I failed to get any perl modules installed (although it did get further than msys). I think a major part of the problem is the way the box was setup by the IT department at work. It has its home drive set to a network share which both cygwin and msys pick up on. This seems to cause problems for the CPAN module when it tries to download and build stuff there. I'd like to be able to help, but I lack the windows knowledge to change any of the setup that was made by the IT team. If I get my hands on another windows box with a more standard install I'll give it another try. For now, I'm admitting defeat. -C