Re: Exit status ignored by the snakefarm?

On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 05:33:33PM +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> Anders Qvist wrote:
> >On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 10:50:38AM +0200, Per Cederqvist wrote:
> >
> >><[email protected]> writes:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Build test succeded. Any warnings are appended below.
> >>>--
> >>>
> >>
> >>Hmm.  I kill a couple of python processes, and the snake farm reports
> >>success?  Something doesn't take care of the exit status the way it
> >>should.
> >
> >
> >Catching the exit status is difficult from make in this line
> >(buildit.sh, 146):
> >
> >  (make $target 9>&1 1>&2 2>&9 | tee $makeerrlog) > $makelog 2>&1
> 
> Just curious: why don't you write the build code in Python ?
> 
> It's really easy to setup things like this by using the popen2
> module.

If the build scripts were in Python, they wouldn't run where Python
don't. Eg Python don't easily compile on UNICOS. By being able to try
to build Python, we can wait for patches in CVS to result in a working
build.

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