Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 11:07:14 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin Installer should setup a root environment variable Message-ID: <20021106160714.GF10719@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <3DC8A128.90309@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 12:42:21PM +0100, Sven K?hler wrote: >>>I have experienced many times situations which I would like to refer to >>>CYGWIN's root directory from a bat script. The most generic solution >>>would be to utilise an environment variable such as CYGROOT or (as in >>>startxwin.bat) CYGWIN_ROOT to refer to the absolute windows pathname >>>(e.g. D:\cygwin). This would free us from making assumptions if it was >>>setup during the installation utility. The environment variable should >>>be setup for system if installed for "All Users". >> >> >>`cygpath -w /` > >nice idea, but how does he execute cygpath, if he doesn't know the >cygwin-root? he is talking about a _batch_-script, not a shell script. > >there is only one solution, because even if you know cygwin's root-dir, >yu cannot be sure to know cygwin's bin-dir - it could be mounted to a >totally different directory. > >i would recomm writing shell-scripts instead of batch-scripts. Given the above, how would that solve anything? You wouldn't be able to find /bin/sh either. cygpath is the correct solution. Putting cygwin's bin directory in your system path is another solution. The installer could be modified to do this but, blah, blah, blah. cgf -- Please do not send me personal email with cygwin questions or observations. Use the resources at http://cygwin.com/ . -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/