RE: [cdt-dev] Spawner treats environment differently on WindowsandLinux

[Chris Recoskie <recoskie@xxxxxxxxxx>]

My opinion is that it's better to have it working on some platforms than
none.  As I said before I don't think any ISVs are relying on this
behaviour, but it does affect users, and I think we should help the ones we
can.

I should be able to arrange for an AIX build once I figure out who to ask
around here.  Not sure I would be able to get this in place for Friday
though.

Doug, doesn't the Foundation have a suite of build machines for our use?
How do we get to those?

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Chris Recoskie
Team Lead, IBM CDT Team
IBM Toronto
http://www.eclipse.org/cdt



                                                                       
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After looking into this problem for the other platforms we support it looks
like the Spawner for Aix, Macosx, Qnx and Solaris platforms seem to treat
the environment in the same way as the Linux Spawner. (NOTE: I did not test
that, this is only my assumption since it seems that only on windows the
launch is performed via a separate launcher process).

So in case we decide to go ahead with the Windows Spawner behavior, the
Aix, Macosx, Qnx and Solaris Spawners should be updated as well and I won?t
be able to do that since I don?t have these OSes.

I?m not sure what approach is generally used with regard to Spawner: should
the Spawner change/update process be consistent across all supported
platforms?
In this case I don?t think we?ll be able to do this for the 3.1 since we
should do all the necessary changes and testing by the end of this Friday.
In this case I propose to postpone the fix for the 3.1.1

In case it is OK to do it only for Linux for now, I?m OK with committing
it. But before that I need a volunteer to build and test the update for
Linux.ppc.

Mikhail

From: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Sennikovsky, Mikhail
Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 8:48 PM
To: CDT General developers list.
Subject: RE: [cdt-dev] Spawner treats environment differently on
WindowsandLinux

Hi All,

I've implemented a quick fix for the linux Spawner.
The script is attached to the corresponding bugzilla (
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=145737).
See https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/attachment.cgi?id=43732&action=view

I've tested it on Linux x86 and it works fine, though I've made only a
little testing so far.

In case we all agree to make the Spawner treat the environment on Linux as
it does it in Windows, we should decide whether or not to include the fix
in the 3.1

The major impact of this bug currently is the MBS Internal Builder and all
its clients: Internal Build functionality, Building a single resource
functionality.

Mikhail


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Behalf Of Sennikovsky, Mikhail
Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 3:07 PM
To: CDT General developers list.
Subject: [cdt-dev] Spawner treats environment differently on Windows
andLinux

Hi All,

While working on the fix for the MBS Internal Builder-related issue (
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=145099), I?ve noticed that
the Spawner treats environment differently on Windows and Linux (see the
bug https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=145737)
Although it might not seem to be a really critical bug especially when we
are close to our release, I?d like to here your opinion on what should be
the right way of handling environment: the way used by the Windows Spaner
or the way used by the Linux one, since the decision might affect other
components using Spawner, e.g. the SIProvider mechanism, MBS Internal
Builder i.e. the way the Path environment variable is treated by those
components.
See the bug https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=145737 for more
detail and please comment to that bug if you have any ideas regarding this.

Thanks,
Mikhail
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