Bug in startxwin.bat after installing with setup.exe in win98SE

Harold L Hunt huntharo@msu.edu
Fri Jul 12 14:31:00 GMT 2002


Thomas Chadwick <j_tetazoo@hotmail.com> said:

> I hate to jump into the middle of a religious argument (which this is 
> turning out to be) but it seems to me that a plausible solution would be to 
> urge the maintainers of the cygwin setup program to define a CYGWIN_ROOT 
> environment variable for us.  Cygwin setup is already putting stuff in the 
> registry, isn't it, so why not this?
>
> You could then modify the startxwin.bat and startxwin.sh scripts such that 
> they don't attempt to assign CYGWIN_ROOT if it already has a value.
> 

Oh great, you just took a religious war and told the heathens that they could
fight too.  :)

I am inclined to let this issue work itself out without my involvement, other
than to release a patched startxwin.bat if necessay.

Harold



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