Jim, On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 09:37:22AM -0700, Jim Eberle wrote: > Part of the latest python rollout involved converting the "python" > symlink into a full file copy. I was wondering if this could be > renamed to "python.exe". > > Without the ".exe" extension, doing a CreateProcess() on "python" > fails even if the python file exists and is in the calling process' > %PATH%. > > Likewise, running "python" from a CMD shell (some people do this) > fails for the same reason.
Unfortunately when I converted to using cygport, I forgot about the functionality in my build script to workaround the above issue. I will try to figure out how to convince cygport to pass "LN=cp" during the "make install" phase. Yaakov, Do you have any hints? Thanks, Jason -- PGP/GPG Key: http://www.tishler.net/jason/pubkey.asc or key servers Fingerprint: 7A73 1405 7F2B E669 C19D 8784 1AFD E4CC ECF4 8EF6 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
