Re: Smoking Win32 with dotNet

Op een zonnige herfstdag (Wednesday 24 September 2003 22:07), schreef Orton, 
Yves:

> Hi Guys,
>
> First off let me say im impressed how far Smoke has gone since I last sent
> a mail to you folks.
>
> Congrats, and nice work.

Thank you and thanks for this renewed interest in the smoke project.

  Op een zonnige herfstdag (Wednesday 24 September 2003 12:49), schreef
  [email protected]:

  > Automated smoke report for 5.9.0 patch 21356 on windows nt - 5.0 (x86)
  > (smoker) using  version
  > Report by Test::Smoke v1.18.02 (perl 5.6.1) [2 minutes 32 seconds]

I understand that this was yours...

> A few comments, and issues though for Win32 and dotNet.
>
> configsmoke.pl dies if you dont specify a path to archive your smokes in.

This has been resolved in the upcomming 1.18.06

> On win32/dotNet VS 6 etc, unless you copy the enviornment vars from
> VCVARS32/VSVARS32 into the registry, and/or remember to run one of them
> before you start smoking or configuring the correct paths will not be
> searched and the various tools needed will not be found.

Yes it has been on my todo for some time, but I currently have no access to a 
machine with MSVS... As soon as I find some time, I'll try and arrange that

> Unfortunately fine is a relative term :-( The smoke did _not_ in fact work
> fine. It identified a few errors and then hung around io/openpid.t However
> when I do a build by hand using the same makefile that smoke used it passes
> all tests with flying colors.

Would the hangs be while "PERLIO=stdio :crlf"? (I have this problem with gcc 
on Win32.) If so you can try the "defaultenv" option [Run without 
$ENV{PERLIO}?].
I can't realy do anything about hanging tests from Test::Smoke, but they 
occasionally occur on some systems.

> Any help getting this set up would be appreciated.

hope this helps &&

Good luck,

Abe
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