Re: [jamboost] testing problems

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-05-14 04:04:24

David Abrahams wrote:
> Apparently, on unix, the python-based testing assumes it will find the
> executable in bin.linuxx86. That didn't work out so well when I tried
> testing on OSF and AIX today. Vladimir, is that something you can fix
> relatively painlessly?

I'm totally clueless here. What's OSF and AIX? Do have have "posix" as the 
value of "os.name" in Python? Hmm... how can we detect that we're on OSF or 
AIX? The simple approach is to invove "uname -a" (do they have it?) and 
parsing its output, that this is ugly.

- Volodya