setup / postinastall script question

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:

> Hello,
>
> will it work with setup.exe to set the PATH in a postinstall script?

A postinstall script is just like any other shell script.  I don't see any
reason why it wouldn't.

> I.e.:
>
> export PATH=/usr/X11R6/bin:$PATH
> * do something *
> Gerrit

Well, postinstall scripts are usually run with /bin/sh, which means that
you'd have to use the following syntax:

PATH="/usr/X11R6/bin:$PATH"
export PATH

(note the quotes, BTW, as many Windows paths have spaces).
HTH,
	Igor
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