Closed Bug 777798 Opened 14 years ago Closed 9 years ago

Pymake causes MSYS pwd to start returning Windows paths

Categories

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox Build System
Component:
General
Platform:
x86_64
Windows 7
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: rain1, Unassigned)

Details

For whatever reason, MSYS converts the Unix PWD environment variable to Windows PWD but not the other way around, at least in some cases. This causes pwd to start returning Windows paths. /bin $ python Python 2.7.2 (default, Jun 12 2011, 15:08:59) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import os >>> os.environ["PWD"] 'C:/Users/Sid/mozilla-build/msys/bin' >>> os.system("sh -c 'pwd'") C:/Users/Sid/mozilla-build/msys/bin 0
Is this a bad thing? Msys programs typically can function with windows-style paths (as long as they use forward slashes), so I don't think this is a bug.
I hit this when I was unable to reproduce bug 770558 locally because my `pwd` was a Windows-style path, which meant pymake didn't try to run it through the shell.
Mass close of pymake-related bugs.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 9 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Product: Core → Firefox Build System
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