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Re: /rebase.sh (was Re: YA call for snapshot testing)
Christopher Faylor skrev 2012-01-24 17:01:
> 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.
I don't think finding cygpath is a problem in a postinstall script, which
was the question at hand...
Cheers,
Peter