Re: [HACKERS] msvc and vista fun

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>   
>> I wrote:
>>     
>>> Would making a change like this in those 12 places be so ugly?
>>>
>>>       
>> Specifically, I propose the following patch, which should fix the issues
>> buildfarm apparently has with the XP command shell (or some incarnations
>> of it).
>>
>> Strictly speaking, we don't need the changes in builddoc.bat and
>> install.bat, but I did them for the sake of completeness. Since it
>> should not affect anyone not setting XP_EXIT_FIX it seems fairly low risk.
>>     
>
> Yeah.
> I still would like to have it confirmed that this is actually an XP
> fault, and not something else in your environment. To that end, I've
> bugged Dave to run some builds on his XP VM (since it apparently works
> fine on my XP x64 machine).
>
>   

Ok. FWIW, this box is extremely clean and up to date. And I had the 
identical issue on my previous XP/x386 box. It would be very strange if 
somehow two environments got polluted like this.

cheers

andrew