On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 09:13:26 -0600, zooko wrote: >> Perhaps a workaround is to somehow tell Cygwin that its >> /tmp is actually C:\tmp because on Windows, the path '\' refers to the >> root of the current drive. > > This sounds like a good workaround -- maybe configure the Windows > buildslave with the environment variable TMP="c:\tmp" and see if Perl > uses that variable.
Yeah, we should try something like this. > Another would be to install a Windows version of Perl, but I'm loathe to > mess with such things. Understood... I suppose MSYS ships a more Windows-y Perl > Another would be to rewrite that test into sh, which seems to be the > trend. :-) We should probably rewrite what we can into sh. I think the match tests are too sophisticated to do with Perl... but maybe we could convert them into Haskell unit tests instead (they are sort of a cross between unit tests for the date parsing and functional tests for date interpretation in the messy real world of timezones and what not). -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9
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