On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 05:19:43PM +0100, Peter Rosin wrote: >Christopher Faylor skrev 2012-01-24 17:01: >> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 07:12:35AM -0500, Andrew Schulman wrote: >>>>> What's the supported way in a postinstall script to find the Cygwin >>>>> installation directory? I thought of 'cat >>>>> /proc/registry/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Cygwin/something-or-other', but >>>>> it seems that there can be multiple installation locations stored there. >>>> >>>> Will "cygpath -m /" do? >>> >>> Uh... right. Thanks :) >> >> The problem is finding cygpath isn't it? If it's not in the path then >> you'll have to search for it. >> >> You could look for the shortcut on the desktop I guess and infer the >> bin directory from that. > >I don't think finding cygpath is a problem in a postinstall script, which >was the question at hand...
Ah, right. Sorry. cgf