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

Jehan nahor@bravobrava.com
Sat Jul 13 15:59:00 GMT 2002


Robert Collins wrote:
> 
>>-----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.

You mean `cygpath -w /` I guess. Mount doesn't have an option "-w".

	Jehan





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