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From: Takuma Murakami <takuma@dgp.ne.jp>
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: cygwin/xfree86/emacs problems after upgrading
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 17:46:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040226164943.57EA.TAKUMA@dgp.ne.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.56.0402041943420.17546@slinky.cs.nyu.edu>

Igor,

> Yes, it's a neat trick *if* the only thing people changed was the install
> drive.  If they change the path, all bets are off.  I'm surprised you
> don't actually customize startxwin.bat (and similar files, like
> startxdmcp.bat) in a postinstall script (which can run under a Cygwin
> shell, and thus know the root of the install).  You could choose a
> template value, e.g. "%$CYGWIN_ROOT$%", and replace that with "`cygpath -w
> /`" using, say, sed.  If you're interested, I could whip up an example
> postinstall script for you in the next week or so.

I'm interested in that trick out of curiosity.
Could you show me your boilerplate?

Takuma Murakami


  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-26  7:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-05  0:18 Harold L Hunt II
2004-02-05  0:48 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2004-02-26 17:46   ` Takuma Murakami [this message]
2004-02-26 20:53     ` Igor Pechtchanski
2004-02-27  8:41       ` Igor Pechtchanski
     [not found] <mailman.1828.1075842639.928.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-02-08  8:51 ` Jari Aalto+mail.linux
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-02-03 21:10 Thomas L Roche
2004-02-04 21:21 ` Igor Pechtchanski

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