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Subject: RE: Add requirement for SYSTEMROOT to FAQ?
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 12:42:19 -0400
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Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 10:20:53AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>
>>What about
>>always adding SYSTEMROOT to the windows env created in build_env,
>>if it's missing?
>
>That's what I was thinking.  And then lying about its existence if
>someone queries the environment via getenv and SYSTEMROOT is "not
>supposed to be there".

Won't lying about the existence of SYSTEMROOT lead to some problems
debugging a SYSTEMROOT-related issue?

"What's the SYSTEMROOT?"

"How do I find out?"

"Add echo $SYSTEMROOT to [something]"

"It says SYSTEMROOT is empty"

etc.

-Richard Campbell.

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