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Re: cygwin/xfree86/emacs problems after upgrading
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> 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 "$i" \
^
s/ \\$/ ; \\/
> done
> --------- Note: cutting here may damage your screen surface ---------
I did say it was untested...
Igor
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