[Buildbot-devel] Buildbot on windows : spawn : invalid argument

[Greg Ward]

On 10 October 2008, Jimmy John said:
>   I am trying to run a slave on windows. When I log into the slave and build by hand, everything works fine. But when I try and build via buildbot, I get wierd "spawn: invalid argument" errors.. e.g. 
[...]
> C:\xxx\branches\3.2\contrib\boost-jam-3.1.13>.\bootstrap\jam0 -f build.jam --toolset=vc8 "--toolset-root=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\Tools\..\..\VC\ " clean 
> ...found 1 target...
> ...updating 1 target...
> ...updated 1 target...
> C:\xxx\branches\3.2\contrib\boost-jam-3.1.13>.\bootstrap\jam0 -f build.jam --toolset=vc8 "--toolset-root=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\Tools\..\..\VC\ "  
> ...found 45 targets...
> ...updating 2 targets...
> [MKDIR] bin.ntx86
> 
> ERROR: child terminated with exit code 1
> spawn: Invalid argument
> program finished with exit code 0

You're missing a lot of important information here:
  * what version of Windows?
  * what version of Python?
  * what version of Twisted?
  * what version of Buildbot?

And what happens if you run a really trivial command like "dir"?

        Greg