Re: [Plplot-devel] Planning for the release of 5.13.0

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

On 2017-08-15 12:19-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote:

> On 2017-08-15 11:03-0000 Arjen Markus wrote:
>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@be...]
>>> Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2017 12:42 PM
>>> To: Arjen Markus
>>> Cc: PLplot development list
>>> Subject: RE: [Plplot-devel] Planning for the release of 5.13.0
>>> 
>>> On 2017-08-15 08:03-0000 Arjen Markus wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I expand the path to get access to git in the comprehensive tests, but 
>>>> then
>>> CMake fails:
>>> 
>>> Hi Arjen:
>>> 
>>> How do you expand the PATH?  If you mean put /usr/bin on it, doesn't that 
>>> already
>>> happen automatically when you set the appropriate shell for 
>>> MinGW-w64/MSYS2?
>>> 
>
>> Oh, don't worry: when you start a MinGW-w64/MSYS2 shell or a Cygwin
> shell for that matter, you get a dedicated path variable. In fact much
> cleaner than the one a DOS-box starts with, as that accumulates a lot
> of junk :(. I had to expand it to get access to git - it resides in
> "c:\program files\git" and that is not part of the initial path.
>
>> Meanwhile, leaving out "git" has allowed CMake to continue without
> much ado - CMake encounters a wxWidgets directory within the git
> installation, but without the header files and then chokes, it seems.
>
>> For now I run the tests without git.
>
> That sounds like absolutely the correct approach since from its
> location the above version of git is obviously not part of the
> MinGW-w64/MSYS2 platform (which is a big strike against that version
> of git right from the start), and you further discovered including
> "c:\program files\git" on your PATH brings additional problematic
> baggage.
>
> In fact, in the interest of getting these tests done as quickly and
> easily as possible, let's forget about git on MinGW-w64/MSYS2 entirely
> until after this release, i.e., when your current test with git
> completes, please send me that report tarball, and with luck (no
> showstopper issues revealed) that should be the last noninteractive
> test you need to do for this platform before the 5.13.0 release.

Oops.  That above key qualifying phrase should have read

"when your current test **without** git completes"

Alan

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