pass ${revision} to local bitten-slave

[kostmo@…]

Running locally from the command line (see ​http://bitten.edgewall.org/wiki/BittenRunSlaveLocally), there seems to be no way to specify the values for the pre-defined variable "revision" (and others listed here: ​http://bitten.edgewall.org/wiki/BuildRecipes#PropertyInterpolation).

This person had the same problem as me: ​http://groups.google.com/group/bitten/browse_thread/thread/e5d7a026d6dbd935/6706a86dc8446e4f

[hodgestar]

I don't think this is documented but it looks like the configuration object will automatically substitute in environment variables from os.environ. Could you try those and report back whether it works?

[Karl Ostmo <kostmo@…>]

OK, from the command line in Windows I first ran:

set revision=11573

This worked correctly to set the ${revision} pre-defined variable when I tested as follows:

bitten-slave --keep-files --work-dir=my_workdir --build-dir=my_builddir Build Recipe.xml

However, after similarly trying to set the ${path} pre-defined variable as follows:

set path=/trunk/mystuff

I get the following error when running bitten-slave: [ERROR ] 'svn' is not recognized as an internal or external command, [ERROR ] operable program or batch file.

The system PATH variable has been overwritten. Restarting cmd.exe restores it.

Also see my related post on Google Groups: ​http://groups.google.com/group/bitten/browse_thread/thread/9a8eb8893f63d288