Running the everest script on an ubuntu VM, it fails with this:
WARNING: python not found in PATH
ERROR: python2 not found in PATH
Do you want to install a Cygwin python2?
Cygwin setup not found, downloading it
--2021-07-29 01:01:47-- https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe
Resolving cygwin.com (cygwin.com)... 8.43.85.97
Connecting to cygwin.com (cygwin.com)|8.43.85.97|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1355283 (1.3M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘setup-x86_64.exe’
setup-x86_64.exe 100%[=========================================>] 1.29M --.-KB/s in 0.05s
2021-07-29 01:01:47 (24.9 MB/s) - ‘setup-x86_64.exe’ saved [1355283/1355283]
./setup-x86_64.exe --no-desktop --no-shortcuts --no-startmenu --wait --quiet-mode --packages=python2
run-detectors: unable to find an interpreter for ./setup-x86_64.exe
Somehow it got confused into thinking that it should run Cygwin??
Reported by @nikswamy
Symptom
Running the everest script on an ubuntu VM, it fails with this:
Somehow it got confused into thinking that it should run Cygwin??
Solution
This check at https://github.com/project-everest/everest/blob/master/everest#L774 should be enclosed in a
if is_windows