It sort of is defined because it is child or TARGETDIR (usually) and that defaults to the ROOTDIR which is the drive with the most space.
Rob blogged a bit about this: http://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2010/1/26/StackOverflow-what-does-Nam eSourceDir-refer-to Neil -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Hammond [mailto:andrew.george.hamm...@gmail.com] Sent: 08 June 2010 16:35 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] ICE48: Directory 'INSTALLDIR' appears to be hardcoded in the property table to a local drive, except it's not. That worked. It feels like using an un-defined variable, but... ok. :) A On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 7:20 PM, Rob Mensching <r...@robmensching.com> wrote: > Don't put anything in the Property table. If you're always going to pass it > in, you don't need it in the Property table. > > On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Andrew Hammond < > andrew.george.hamm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I have the following error (treating warnings as errors, warning level > > pedantic): > > > > ICE48: Directory 'INSTALLDIR' appears to be hardcoded in the property > table > > to a local drive. > > > > However INSTALLDIR is a property that I expect to always pass in to > msiexec > > at install time. How can I either fix the problem or suppress the error > > message please? > > > > Andrew > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ > > ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate > > GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the > > lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo > > _______________________________________________ > > WiX-users mailing list > > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > > > > > -- > virtually, Rob Mensching - http://RobMensching.com LLC > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ > ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate > GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the > lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
