[Buildbot-devel] win32 path problem

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 8:08 PM, Alex Escott <AE at malaspina-labs.com> wrote:
> starting svn operation
>
> could not find 'svn'
>
> PATH is 'C:/Program Files (x86)/Target Compiler
> Technologies/cf6-08R1.3/bin/WINbin;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;c:\Program
> Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Tools\Binn\;c:\Program Files\Microsoft
> SQL Server\100\Tools\Binn\;c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL
> Server\100\DTS\Binn\'
>
> program finished with exit code -1
>
>
>
> Any idea why it’s not using my system path? Or how I can get it to find svn
> without hard-coding the location into svn.py (which I’m doing as a
> workaround for now…)

Have you restarted the buildslave to pick up the new PATH?  I don't
really understand how environment variables work on Windows, but on
POSIX systems they're inherited from the parent process, so a change
isn't effective in already-running processes.

Dustin