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: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 14:57:33 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Installation hangs because asks for input from terminal (Attn: tetex maintainer, setup maintainer) Message-ID: <20040913185733.GC21468@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <41416E12.30103@math.md> <87llfenmgx.fsf@peder.flower> <874qm2nigl.fsf@peder.flower> <87d60qm23w.fsf@peder.flower> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87d60qm23w.fsf@peder.flower> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 08:54:11PM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: >Igor Pechtchanski writes: > >> Not really. As Max said, the environment in which the postinstall scripts >> run is the same as the one you'd get when you run them on the command line >> (albeit from a non-login /bin/sh). That environment will contain all of >> the Windows-set environment variables. If the tools require that some >> variables be unset (because they might throw the tools off, for example), >> the variables have to be unset in the postinstall script -- setup.exe >> can't be expected to know all of the variables potentially conflicting >> with all of the packages. > >No, of course. That's why I'd like to have an empty (rather than a >cleaned) environment, isn't that possible? That sounds cleaner than >fixing all scripts? No, you can't have a completely empty environment on Windows. There are some environment variables that really have to be there. cgf -- 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/