[Swift-user] Problems running example scripts

[Mihael Hategan]

On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 23:57 +0200, Rickard Westerlund wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Mihael Hategan <hategan at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> > See this:
> > http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/swift/guides/userguide.php#tips.windows
> That certainly helped, now I'm just getting a "execution failled:
> exception in echo" error and the job failing with an exit code of 252.
> I tried changing paths in tc.data but that didn't help. Removing the
> line for echo gives the "could not find any valid host for task"
> error.

Right. Most of the examples will probably fail to work because the
standard unix executables don't exist in windows (unless you install
cygwin).

So you would need to use some valid windows executables there and write
swift scripts that make sense for them.

> 
> > That seems to indicate that your tc.data does not have an entry for
> > "wc". Is that correct?
> Yep, adding an entry for it solved it.

Ok. Good.