Add requirement for SYSTEMROOT to FAQ?
Richard Campbell
richard.campbell@air2web.com
Thu Oct 7 16:42:00 GMT 2004
Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 10:20:53AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>
>>What about
>>always adding SYSTEMROOT to the windows env created in build_env,
>>if it's missing?
>
>That's what I was thinking. And then lying about its existence if
>someone queries the environment via getenv and SYSTEMROOT is "not
>supposed to be there".
Won't lying about the existence of SYSTEMROOT lead to some problems
debugging a SYSTEMROOT-related issue?
"What's the SYSTEMROOT?"
"How do I find out?"
"Add echo $SYSTEMROOT to [something]"
"It says SYSTEMROOT is empty"
etc.
-Richard Campbell.
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