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Subject: RE: environment variables and setup.exe
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Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 09:23:37 +1000
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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Vincent [mailto:jpv50 AT hotmail DOT com] 
> Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2002 1:55 AM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: environment variables and setup.exe
> 
> 
> May I suggest that the setup.exe program examines
> the PATH and CYGWIN environment variables and
> offers to set them to values that allow the postinstall
> scripts to work on a system that has not had any cygwin 
> binaries installed before. Its especially confusing to find 
> that cygwin1.dll is not on the path after selecting "Installation".

Setup runs the post install scripts via the cygwin batch file that sets
the path - or it's meant to.

As for setting the path to allow running cygwin commands from a command
prompt (for example), patches gratefully accepted. Can I suggest that a
post-install script for cygwin1.dll is the appopriate place to put this
though.

Rob

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