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

[Jehan <nahor at bravobrava dot com>]

Thomas Chadwick wrote:
> 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.
First, I'm not sure that making setup.exe aware of Xfree just because of 
the registry is a good idea.
As for adding an environment variable, then we could just modify the 
path to add the X11 path to it. Then we could get rid of the CYGWIN_ROOT 
altogether.
Last, I still think that a postinstall script to create the batch file 
is better (well that was my idea, I'm not going to give up on it easily :p)

	Jehan