[pony-build] cache_dir stuff under SVN and HG

C. Titus Brown ctb at msu.edu
Sun Feb 21 12:42:54 PST 2010


On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 02:40:35PM -0600, Fatima Cherkaoui wrote:
> The build works the first time , but if we try to force it to re-build, it
> doesn't work because the cache_dir is not removed before rebuilding.
> When I've tried removing it manually  -rm -rf,  it rebuilt perfectly on
> Lyorn at least.
> On windows I get:
> http://lyorn.idyll.org/ctb/pb-dev/p/coverage/16956/

Right -- just make sure that you're running 'python.exe' instead of 'python2.6'
instead.

> I have tried the build command  directly on my windows 7 machine :
> 
> BuildCommand([python_exe, 'setup.py', 'build_ext', '-i'],
>                           name='compile'),
> 
> I have been getting  a windows error saying : "The file doesn't have any
> associated program with it to perform this action"
> I have double checked the default program associated with the extension .py
> and indeed was python. I have also reinstalled Python just in case.
> 
> I'm trying to find more about this error . Please let me know ,if anyone has
> any idea about it.

What's the full command line for BuildCommand?  Specifically, what's the
value for python_exe?

cheers,
--titus



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