Re: report on building of python 2.5.2 under msys under wine on linux.

2009-01-15 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
> practical decision, due to /bin/sh.exe messing around and stopping > python.exe from running! (under cmd.exe it's fine. i have to do a > bit more investigation: http://bugs.python.org/issue4956 found it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

report on building of python 2.5.2 under msys under wine on linux.

2009-01-15 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
no, the above subject-line is not a joke: i really _have_ successfully built python2.5.2 by installing wine on linux, then msys under wine, and then mingw32 compiler - no, not the linux mingw32-cross-compiler, the _native_ mingw32 compiler that runs under msys, and then hacking things into submissi