On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 19:52, Alex Karasulu wrote:
> Peter,
>
> Yeah the problem is that shell based macro expansion is not working when you
> do a simple 'echo $PATH' expression either: the echo takes it literally and
> returns it to you since it is not in an interpreted environment (a shell).
> You need to fork a shell and have it run the evaluation. Also the user's
> shell must be determined so the user's /etc/passwd entry must be read to get
> the default shell. Getting more involved than I wanted to ...
>
> Even this might not be the shell being used but there is no other way to
> determine what stinking shell was running when the runtime was started.
>
> If we don't pick the default shell, the environment variable may not be
> present. Yeah this stuff wreaks pretty bad and is the pits. That's why
> people stay clear of it. I'll have an update for you as soon as I have it
> working properly and tested on a couple of platforms.
>
> Sorry about that,
> Alex
No problem. It was getting late when I hit this last evening. I'm glad I
didn't sit up trying to fix it ;-)
Peter
>
> > > Meaning comment out line 52 where the test asserts a non-null for the
> > PATH
> > > variable.
> >
> > I think the actual error is that getUnixVariable("$PAT") is returning
> > "$PAT" at line 51. I added some System.out.println 's.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Peter
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Alex Karasulu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 12:19 PM
> > > > To: 'Avalon Developers List'
> > > > Subject: RE: Merlin build
> > > >
> > > > Interesting because the TestCase can't seem to find a PATH variable in
> > > > your
> > > > environment when it should. For the time being try to comment it
> > out. I
> > > > will try it on a linux box and get back to you shortly.
> > > >
> > > > Alex
> > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: Peter Courcoux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > > Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 12:10 PM
> > > > > To: Avalon Dev List
> > > > > Subject: Merlin build
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi, Steve, Alex,
> > > > >
> > > > > The Merlin cvs build I checked out clean last night failed one of
> > the
> > > > > tests.
> > > > >
> > > > > Test reports attached.
> > > > >
> > > > > I think all the environment details are in the reports.
> > > > >
> > > > > Regards,
> > > > >
> > > > > Peter
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