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Subject:	RE: [PATCH] Fix for postinstall not running
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Date:	Thu, 16 May 2002 19:30:52 +1000
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From:	"Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf AT redhat DOT com] 
> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 3:32 PM
> To: cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: [PATCH] Fix for postinstall not running
> 
> 
> Here is a fix for the problem of postinstall not running.
> 
> I'm not going to check this one into the trunk because it 
> uses a static variable and "feels wrong" as a result.  I 
> think we probably need to change the find interface, either 
> to just return the relative path or the full path as needed.

Hmm. I think we actually want to make it more oop. It should call into
an object, not a 'find routine'. The passed in value will be the
relative value, and the object gets to decide whether to prepend the
path it called find with or not.

Rob.

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