From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7796 invoked by alias); 26 Feb 2004 07:55:56 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 7788 invoked from network); 26 Feb 2004 07:55:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO www19.dns.ne.jp) (210.188.227.148) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 26 Feb 2004 07:55:55 -0000 Received: from [192.168.0.2] (h219-110-183-208.catv02.itscom.jp [219.110.183.208]) by www19.dns.ne.jp (8.11.6p3/8.11.6/[SAKURA-NET]/2002.11.20) with ESMTP id i1Q7tqD98238; Thu, 26 Feb 2004 16:55:53 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from takuma@dgp.ne.jp) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 17:46:00 -0000 From: Takuma Murakami To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin/xfree86/emacs problems after upgrading In-Reply-To: References: <40218BC0.3010100@msu.edu> Message-Id: <20040226164943.57EA.TAKUMA@dgp.ne.jp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-02/txt/msg00280.txt.bz2 List-Id: 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