Building zombie.js on cygwin.

NOTES TO SELF:

Took me a long time, so I don't remember all the steps. But here are some tips:

1) NPM problems on cygwin with PIPE and SPAWN for TAR. Basically tar returns an error (on cygwin) that should be ignored.

I changed npm/lib/utils/exec.js: function Pipe(...)

cp2.on("exit", function (code) {

cp2._exited = true

if (errState) return

// JORGE if (!code) return log.verbose(cp2.name || "", "success", cb)

return log.verbose(cp2.name || "", "success", cb)

log.error(buff2, cp2.name || "")

cb(new Error( "Failed "+(cp2.name || "")+"\nexited with "+code))

And npm/lib/utils/tar.js (probably not necessary if above is changed):

function gunzTarPerm (tarball, tmp, dMode, fMode, uid, gid, cb) {

if (!dMode) dMode = DMODE

if (!fMode) fMode = FMODE

log.silly([dMode.toString(8), fMode.toString(8)], "gunzTarPerm modes")

//console.error(npm.config.get("gzipbin")+" --decompress --stdout "

// +tarball+" | "+npm.config.get("tar")+" -mvxpf - --no-same-owner -C "

// +tmp)

console.error("JORGE");

pipe( spawn( npm.config.get("gzipbin")

, ["--decompress", "--stdout", tarball]

, process.env, false )

, spawn( npm.config.get("tar")

, ["-mvxpf", "-", "--no-same-owner", "-C", tmp] // JORGE --ignore-failed-read

, process.env, false )

, function (er) {

// if we're not doing ownership management,

// then we're done now.

if (er) return log.er(cb,

"JORGE Failed unpacking "+tarball)(er)

if (npm.config.get("unsafe-perm")) {

Also I had to manually install waf-1.5.16 (must be this version) in ~

And set my PYTHONPATH to:

export PYTHONPATH=/home/jorge/waf-1.5.16/wafadmin/Tools:/home/jorge/waf-1.5.16:/home/jorge/waf-1.5.16/wafadmin/:/usr/local/lib/node/wafadmin/Tools/:/home/jorge/node/tools

Basically, the whole process sucked on CYGWIN. I can never get the 8 hours I spent on this crap back.

Now, I am going to go do some node.js screen-scraping.

-- jorge.