Subject: Re: Bug in startxwin.bat after installing with setup.exe in win98SE
From: Harold L Hunt <[email-masked]>
To: willichnicht habichnet <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 10:27:28 EDT

First: Wrong mailing list.  Send all Cygwin/XFree86 questions to
[email-masked].  I have redirected this discussion to the correct
mailing list, but be careful to remove [email-masked] from the ``cc'' if
you reply to this message.

Second: Read the extensive comments in startxwin.bat that talk about
CYGWIN_ROOT.  Not specifying a drive causes the path to reference \cygwin on
the current drive (such as c:\cygwin, or d:\cygwin).  You have to run
startxwin.bat from the same drive that Cygwin is installed on, or it won't get
the correct drive letter.

startxwin.bat has been using this path setting system for over a year (I
think) and not a *single* person has reported a problem with it until today. 
You must be doing something on your system that other users thought better of
(such as running startxwin.bat from the d drive, or from a network drive, when
Cygwin is installed on the c drive).

Harold

willichnicht habichnet <[email-masked]> said:

> i installed cygwin/XFree86 with the recommended
> setup.exe in win98SE.
> starting X with startxwin.bat resulted in
> errormessages like "cygwin1.dll not found" etc.
> in startxwin.bat there was a line "SET
> CYGWIN_ROOT=\cygwin" which seemed to be incorrect
> because theres no drive given.
> after editing it to "SET CYGWIN_ROOT=c:\cygwin"
> (installation path) everything works fine.
> i installed it on a win2000 too without these problems
> but on an other win98-system same corrupted
> startxwin.bat was there.
> i have not tried an other installation directory or
> drive.
> this message is only for information; i need no other
> solution.
> 
> Michael Heide
> 
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