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On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 07:04, Christopher Faylor wrote: > Wow. I can't believe I fell into this trap. I have been writing shell > scripts for a long long time and should know better. > > Thanks for the heads up. I suspect that this accounts for some strange > installation problems. > > Would it be worthwhile to just have setup.exe put /bin first in the path > when running these things? I know that the absolutely correct solution > is to use absolute path names in these scripts but people are going > to forget, so... void init_run_script () { [..] char old_path[_MAX_PATH]; GetEnvironmentVariable ("PATH", old_path, sizeof (old_path)); SetEnvironmentVariable ("PATH", backslash (cygpath ("/bin") + ";" + cygpath ("/usr/bin") + ";" + old_path).cstr_oneuse()); [...] Rob -- GPG key available at: <http://www.robertcollins.net/keys.txt>.
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