support/filetools.cpp: why the double colon in the warning message when binary invocation fails?

Thibaut Cuvelier tcuvelier at lyx.org
Mon Oct 12 22:33:27 UTC 2020


On Tue, 13 Oct 2020 at 00:11, Richard Kimberly Heck <rikiheck at lyx.org>
wrote:

> On 10/12/20 5:33 PM, Thibaut Cuvelier wrote:
>
> Dear list,
>
> When running LyX on Windows, it first tries to use py -3 and py -2 to
> determine the version of the available version of Python. However, on my
> machine, none of these is available, so that I get warning messages:
>
> D:\LyX\lyx-unstable\cmake-build-debug\bin\LyX.exe
> RunCommand:: could not terminate child process: Invalid argument
> RunCommand:: could not terminate child process: Invalid argument
> support\Systemcall.cpp (268): Systemcall: 'git ls-files
> "MissingEndLayoutBetweenTables.lyx"' did not start!
> support\Systemcall.cpp (269): error The process failed to start. Either
> the invoked program is missing, or you may have
>
> It's just a minor thing, but why are there two colons in these messages?
> RunCommand:*:*
> I just propose to remove one of those colons, to have a nicer output,
> unless there was a reason (this line dates back from SVN and .C extension
> for C++ files, so that's a while ago).
>
> Surely just a typo.
>
Thanks for your answer, I just committed this patch.
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