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Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 08:30:23 -0700
From: Stephen Smith <ischis2 AT home DOT com>
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To: Earnie Boyd <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Where is cygwin installed - automatic query
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I like Larry's answer, but to comment on yours:

I would need an automatic way to find the setup.log.full file and the parsing program now needs to be in the path.  So I am
no better off than I was before.

sps

Earnie Boyd wrote:

> Stephen Smith wrote:
> >
> > Uh ... yes and no.   We will use setup to install cygwin.  Then we will use crossGCC.exe to install the cross compiler
> > where the location is c:\somedirectory and the mount point is /usr/local/somedirectory.  Of course the location is
> > selectable from a dialog  box.
> >
> > To create the mount point,  /usr/local/somedirectory, I need the mount command.  But the directory containing mount.exe
> > isn't in the path environment variable.
> >
>
> The setup.log.full file contains a line that begins `root:' that
> identifies the users choice of where to install Cygwin.  Perhaps parsing
> that file would serve your need.
>
> Earnie.
>
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