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Re: cygwin/xfree86/emacs problems after upgrading
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Takuma Murakami wrote:
> Igor,
>
> > Yes, it's a neat trick *if* the only thing people changed was the install
> > drive. If they change the path, all bets are off. I'm surprised you
> > don't actually customize startxwin.bat (and similar files, like
> > startxdmcp.bat) in a postinstall script (which can run under a Cygwin
> > shell, and thus know the root of the install). You could choose a
> > template value, e.g. "%$CYGWIN_ROOT$%", and replace that with "`cygpath -w
> > /`" using, say, sed. If you're interested, I could whip up an example
> > postinstall script for you in the next week or so.
>
> I'm interested in that trick out of curiosity.
> Could you show me your boilerplate?
>
> Takuma Murakami
Well, something like the script below (untested) should do... This uses
'%$CYGWIN_ROOT$%' as the template string.
HTH,
Igor
-------------- BEGIN /etc/postinstall/fix-startxwin.sh --------------
#!/bin/sh
fix_cygwin_root() {
TMPNAME="$1.$$" && \
mv "$1" "$TMPNAME" && \
sed 's/%\$CYGWIN_ROOT\$%/"'"`cygpath -w /`"'"/' "$TMPNAME" > "$1" && \
rm "$TMPNAME"
}
cd /usr/X11R6/bin && \
for i in startxwin.bat startxdmcp.bat; do \
fix_cygwin_root "$i" \
done
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