Hi all!
Here is what I'm interested in -- make *seems to alter subprocess environment somehow (current dir and variables supposedly). Here is the story. For testing of a Delphi5 application under WindowsXP I've established following call chain (on my machine make is renamed to gmake): gmake.exe -> testApp.exe -> ..\..\db_comparator\db_comparator.py <some params> The latter is a separate utility intended to test the equality of some database tables during tests, a thing written in python just for the case. I've discovered, that CreateProcess() (used in testApp.exe for calls to python utility) cannot parse relative paths to executables. Then I've modified chain: gmake.exe -> testApp.exe -> db_comparator.bat -> ..\..\db_comparator\db_comparator.py <some params> where db_comparator.bat is in the same dir with testApp.exe and obviously contains: ..\..\db_comparator.py %* this configuration seemed to work, but ONLY if i run testApp.exe manually. When gmake runs it during all the tests -- it fails. Manual rerun (from cmd) of db_comparator.bat or ..\..\db_comparator.py with the same parameters is successful. Summarizing: gmake.exe -> testApp.exe -> db_comparator.bat -> ..\..\db_comparator\db_comparator.py <some params> FAILS testApp.exe -> db_comparator.bat -> ..\..\db_comparator\db_comparator.py <some params> WORKS Another issue connected. If I want interrupt a make run by pressing Ctrl-C at the cmd terminal, windows reports: "gmake.exe -- error encountered. The application will be closed", and when i close this window, at the termnial make says: gmake: *** [test] Error -1073741510 Moreover, this sequence (an error window and a line at terminal) happens once for every nested gmake, that was active at the moment of interruption, so it may result in this: gmake[3]: *** [testApp.exe] Error -1073741510 gmake[2]: *** [build] Error -1073741819 gmake[1]: *** [test] Error -1073741819 gmake: *** [test] Error -1073741819 These two issues seem to be connected with the way make controls its subprocesses. What is known?.. APPENDIX: C:\>gmake --version GNU Make version 3.75, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath. Thank you for reading all this length, --pavel. _______________________________________________ Make-w32 mailing list Make-w32@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/make-w32
