[Buildbot-devel] win32 path problem

[Alex Escott]

A full reboot solved it.  Oh, windows...

Thanks for the tip

-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Escott [mailto:AE at malaspina-labs.com] 
Sent: January-19-11 6:34 PM
To: Dustin J. Mitchell
Cc: buildbot-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Buildbot-devel] win32 path problem

Yes I've stopped and started it... I'll try a full reboot now as well.

-----Original Message-----
From: djmitche at gmail.com [mailto:djmitche at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Dustin J. Mitchell
Sent: January-19-11 6:15 PM
To: Alex Escott
Cc: buildbot-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Buildbot-devel] win32 path problem

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:\W
> indows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;c:\Pr
> ogram 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
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