Hi Alan, > My recent experiences with MSYS-bash under Wine have been good. It's version > is > > bash.exe-3.1$ bash --version > GNU bash, version 3.1.17(1)-release (i686-pc-msys) > Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > > [...] > easy sell. The advantage to us of this change is that if we switch our > Windows testers from winbash to MSYS-bash, that will put many fewer > constraints on any future test script changes we might want to make.
Reason is, that you either work in MSys with MinGW or in the command line shell of Windows (cmd.exe) with MinGW. But you can't/should not work in both. E.g. MSys doesn't know about C:\, can't take care of \ in filenames, etc. I have to admit, that I have never tested using MSys bash for ctest, but usually most (?, assumption on my side) programmers who are using MinGW use the command line shell or an IDE. MSys is incredible slow on Windows (even compilation), so I wouldn't recommend it using it for daily programming tasks - only to get an Unix based source running easily on Windows (using autoconf). In addition cmake doesn't want to have MSys in the path, when you actually want the "MinGW Generator". I remember that cmake complained if there was an sh.exe in the path (MSys provides both bash.exe and sh.exe). So if you want to use the MinGW/CLI combination MSys should not be in the path (or at least you need to rename sh.exe). Regards, Werner > > Alan > __________________________ > Alan W. Irwin > > Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, > University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). > > Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation > for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software > package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of > Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project > (lbproject.sf.net). > __________________________ > > Linux-powered Science > __________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > Plplot-devel mailing list > Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel -- Dr. Werner Smekal Institut fuer Angewandte Physik Technische Universitaet Wien Wiedner Hauptstr 8-10/134 A-1040 Wien Austria DVR-Nr: 0005886 email: sme...@iap.tuwien.ac.at (GPG: EDCAF4A79) web: http://www.iap.tuwien.ac.at/~smekal phone: +43-(0)1-58801-13463 (office) +43-(0)1-58801-13469 (laboratory) fax: +43-(0)1-58801-13499 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
