On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 06:03:50PM -0600, Paulo Tanimoto wrote: > Hello! > > I took a shot at compiling "conkeror-spawn-helper" under Cygwin. It > does compile, but I don't know how to test it. Morever, the module > "spawn-process" has a few checks to prevent itself from running on a > non-Posix system. I got rid of the checks and now hitting C-i opens a > terminal, prints a message, but it disappears too fast. I couldn't > find a good way of capturing it yet. > > 0. Has anybody got this to work? > > 1. How can I test if "conkeror-spawn-helper" is actually working? > > 2. Any advice on modifying "spawn-process"? It seems to me it will > require a bit of tweaking, because it tries to get a SHELL variable > from the environment and falls back to /bin/sh. I'm also not sure if > the .exe extension breaks the check.
The os-sniffing checks in spawn-process can fairly be called a bug, a poor assumption on our part, given that it would be theoretically possible to use cygwin to make it work. That said, we're still looking for a windows-user to put in the hours to figure all this out and write instructions for everybody else. :) About the .exe suffix, modify the value of spawn_process_helper_program, found in spawn-process.js, and see if that gets you any further. -- John Foerch _______________________________________________ Conkeror mailing list [email protected] https://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/conkeror
