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

[Jehan]

Harold L Hunt wrote:
> Unfortunately you cannot use a relative path (e.g. ..\..\.., which gets \bin
> appended on it to point to /bin) because that causes bash (or whatever shell
> you launch in xterm) to have a relative path the Cygwin binaries.  Thus you
> can no longer run Cygwin binaries if you change out of the /usr/X11R6/bin
> directory, because your relative path to the Cygwin binaries is now incorrect.

I was not suggesting to use relative paths. They are even worse than the 
current solution since the current solution only assumes that we are in 
the good drive while relative path would assumes we also in the good 
directory. It was just to justify why I think the current system is a 
bastard path. Neither absolute nor relative.


> So, we have to use an absolute path, which is why why need something like
> c:\cygwin.  We go one further an change this to \cygwin because we used to get
> weekly complaints like, ``yikes, cygwin1.dll could not be found, cause i am
> l33t and i installed to d:\cygwin''.  We do not get regular complaints
> anymore,  so \cygwin is an improvement over c:\cygwin.

I'm too new to the mailing list, I wasn't their at that time. But I'm 
suprise by this error message. Because this error means than XWin.exe 
has been found (or whatever other cygwin executable). And if it has 
been, then cygwin1.dll path is known since there is no way to install 
individual package in individual directories (none that I know of at least).


> Now, about not being able to see things that you are looking for in a file: I
> wrote two paragraphs! of comments about setting the path correctly, and in
> those comments there does appear a c:\cygwin.  I cannot help someone if they
> are skimming so fast as to completely miss all of that.

RTFM. :). I read it eventually, it just didn't come immediatly because I 
was looking for an absolute path first.


>>Can the batch file be created via the installation script? Then you're 
>>environment would be cygwin and not windows, wouldn't it? The thing I 
>>don't know there would be the "cr/lf" vs "lf" thing.

You didn't comment on this potential solution. I'm not familiar with 
setup.exe (at least less than you). Is there an obvious reason why this 
wouldn't work? If not, and if I don't work too late today, I may look at 
it. Ignoring potential newline issues, it seems as simple as:

cat << EOF > /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.bat
#blablabla beginning of the batch file
EOF
echo SET CYGWIN_ROOT=\"`cygpath -w /`\" >> /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.bat
cat << EOF >> /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.bat
#blablabla end of batch file
EOF


>>Go harold, go!! Kill him :). You know what is better than "sitting 
>>outside by the pool, getting a tan, and drinking a beer"? It sitting 
>>outside by the pool, getting a tan, drinking a beer and watching a fight 
>>game! :)
> 
> Heh heh... What is a ``fight game''?  Are you referring to boxing?

Anything with a little violence in it. Not the WWF thing, it feels too 
fake to be relaxing. Playing to some quake like games is good too. :)

	Jehan