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 Message-ID: <024601c499bb$815e6e00$78d96f83@robinson.cam.ac.uk> From: "Max Bowsher" To: , "Jan Nieuwenhuizen" References: <41416E12.30103@math.md> <87llfenmgx.fsf@peder.flower> Subject: Setup and environment of postinstall scripts (was: Installation hangs because asks for input from terminal) Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 18:22:44 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Cam-ScannerInfo: http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/email/scanner/ X-Cam-AntiVirus: No virus found X-Cam-SpamDetails: Not scanned X-IsSubscribed: yes Note-from-DJ: This may be spam Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski writes: > >>> I found that it was a conflict with my existing fpTeX installation >>> (fpTeX is a TeTeX port to Windows) that defined an environment >>> variable TEXMFCNF to one of Windows directories. > > I feel that setup.exe should not use an unclean environment. I'm not sure that's true. Since there is nothing cleaning up the normal environment in which cygwin programs run, I don't see why postinstall scripts should be different. Does that make sense? Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/