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

Robert Collins robert.collins@syncretize.net
Sat Jul 13 15:51:00 GMT 2002



> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com 
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Thomas Chadwick

> 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?

No. Use `mount -w /` in your postinstall shell script.

Rob



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