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Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 11:07:14 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: cygwin Installer should setup a root environment variable
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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
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