Re: Exit status ignored by the snakefarm?

On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 06:51:51PM +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> 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.

It would. The script parsing the farm-reports into a daily summary
will be in python.

> 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...

Later on, we might want to change to Python, when a sufficent number
of platforms have built successfully.
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