Re: Exit status ignored by the snakefarm?

Anders Qvist wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 05:33:33PM +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>>>>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.

Point taken. Just thought it would make the build script development
a little easier for you.

Perhaps you could use an older version such as Python 1.4 or
1.5.2 for the build process ? You wouldn't need things like
sockets which usually cause most of the trouble, so there's
a chance...

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