From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Base-files-mketc.sh error for non-existing C:\Windows\SysWOW64\drivers\etc
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 21:45:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fuxsjd5x.fsf@Rainer.invalid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20160120T135441-652@post.gmane.org> (Henri's message of "Wed, 20 Jan 2016 12:56:58 +0000 (UTC)")
Henri writes:
>> It's been looking for that for quite some time IIRC. That indeed should
>> likely be
>>
>> WINETC="$(/usr/bin/cygpath -W -u)/System32/drivers/etc"
>>
>> although I've yet to find an official MS document that says so. I'd
>> appreciate if someone could point that out to me, I'll update the base-files
>> package in the next few days.
>
> Please read:
>
> https://msdn.microsoft.com/\
> en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa384187%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
>
> ... an attempt by Microsoft to explain the mess ...
>
> Better Google: SysNative etc
TLDR;
I think my proposal above works on all systems without any of the
SysNative nonsense, I just still don't know if Microsoft in their
infinite wisdom have yet another place where they might look for those
files.
Regards,
Achim.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-20 18:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-20 8:02 David Lee
2016-01-20 11:47 ` Achim Gratz
2016-01-20 13:08 ` Henri
2016-01-20 14:17 ` Henri
2016-01-20 21:45 ` Achim Gratz [this message]
2016-01-20 23:35 ` Henri
2016-01-21 19:56 ` Achim Gratz
2016-01-22 7:35 ` David Lee
2016-01-22 14:33 ` Achim Gratz
2016-01-22 16:02 ` Andrey Repin
2016-01-22 21:07 ` cyg Simple
2016-01-27 9:46 ` David Lee
2016-01-27 16:08 ` Achim Gratz
2016-01-28 6:35 ` David Lee
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