How does one find where Cygwin was installed from Windows?
Larry Hall (Cygwin)
reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com
Tue Feb 10 04:22:00 GMT 2009
On 02/09/2009, Linda Walsh wrote:
> I.e. maybe Cygwin should add an "official dir" in the
> system (for an all-user install), or user (for a 1-user install)
> environment (stored in the registry), so add-on applications that
> rely on Cygwin or rely on knowing where it was installed will work.
>
> It's not like in Windows where you can add something to
> the linux-registry, "/etc", or path-specific part "/etc/profile.d"
> and have other apps pick up this information. It would make
> more sense to put it in a registry environment variable.
>
> What do you think?
Actually, this has been discussed already and has been resolved by
having 1.7's 'setup.exe' putting the Cygwin root installation directory
in... the registry! See HKLM/Software/Cygwin/setup, the "rootdir"
value.
I know, it's not in the environment. That might be nicer. But such
a change could spoil my "there's no good way" statement so I can't
endorse it. ;-)
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A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?
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