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Re: /rebase.sh (was Re: YA call for snapshot testing)
On Jan 24 11:01, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 07:12:35AM -0500, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> >> > What's the supported way in a postinstall script to find the Cygwin
> >> > installation directory? I thought of 'cat
> >> > /proc/registry/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Cygwin/something-or-other', but
> >> > it seems that there can be multiple installation locations stored there.
> >>
> >> Will "cygpath -m /" do?
> >
> >Uh... right. Thanks :)
>
> The problem is finding cygpath isn't it? If it's not in the path then
> you'll have to search for it.
>
> You could look for the shortcut on the desktop I guess and infer the
> bin directory from that.
Setup always sets the current WD to the Cygwin root dir for every
postinstall process. Also, since you create the .bat file from
a postinstall bash script, you can simply call /usr/bin/cygpath.
Corinna
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