From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?UTF-8?B?w4Z2YXIgQXJuZmrDtnLDsCBCamFybWFzb24=?= Subject: Re: windows smoke tester (was Re: What's cooking in git.git (Aug 2010, #02; Wed, 11)) Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 00:46:54 +0000 Message-ID: References: <7vlj8cvi2e.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <4C63BD9B.6000608@viscovery.net> <4C64308D.8030000@gmail.com> <4C647360.50304@gmail.com> <4C647C85.2080109@gmail.com> <4C65E660.9030707@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: Chris Packham X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Aug 14 02:47:07 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 1Ok4tr-0003zT-Kg for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Aug 2010 02:47:03 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756494Ab0HNAq6 convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:46:58 -0400 Received: from mail-gx0-f174.google.com ([209.85.161.174]:43507 "EHLO mail-gx0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753122Ab0HNAq5 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:46:57 -0400 Received: by gxk23 with SMTP id 23so1183728gxk.19 for ; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:46:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=wbHKYOQ9Na3eWpf7snpaRVbHvfqetrNsvnHv/y02rFM=; b=dNxD3RgRpXELDGZIO91zakW5WskTByatVqPj/TOtyUaJQb9bpSA4P2rpevB+3Kz33Y vkEZWPLa8nM49sBNhA5wby0+LDDXGN6LdmNe8le9ZmAGx3Ydtzow2Es7iisdN3oSJkzo cISWA16nMio5beqjnOhhZcp17+3CSPDpxE418= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=X4aFP8kinoQTU8QABf5odUk7L+HZLsP9lNIMS+fCuCSuczWJp2Ff8M7KZ6PVUEbcik u6u9+X+5k9ZknvSrQtaBo1XwnO6ugPMw63sg/6ttqDSe/13Nf2TTdqqzuVoToM392Vms uxPQfcGV+JyCsSQVtPkVDlHXZWohEzQhZ95pI= Received: by 10.231.149.140 with SMTP id t12mr2349853ibv.100.1281746814533; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:46:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.186.226 with HTTP; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:46:54 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4C65E660.9030707@gmail.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 00:42, Chris Packham = wrote: > 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: >> >> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 perl -MCPAN -e 'install TAP::Harness::Archive' >> >> 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 t= he > 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 f= or > 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 chan= ge > 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. Thanks for trying. But since you have perl (but not any modules) I might try to just produce some self-contained script that smokers can drop in that has the needed Perl parts. Can you try this though: curl -L http://cpanmin.us | perl --self-upgrade -s That should install cpanminus, then try to install the archive module.