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From: Jim Reisert AD1C <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu>
To: The Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Can I rename my C:\Cygwin64 directory to C:\Cygwin?
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2022 09:58:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK-n8j45a=Nqy-AKR9sk0c479Uo=-nYiNbMWQz9tSuz_WmhRwg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Now that Cygwin x86 is nearing/has reached end-of-life, I would like
to rename my C:\Cygwin64 directory to C:\Cygwin.

Other than updating my Windows environment variable (CYGROOT), are
there any "gotchas" in doing this?  I already have a D:\Home directory
specified in /etc/nsswitch.conf so I'm not expecting the move to break
that.

Where does setup.exe get its information from?  Is there a .ini file
that I will need to edit?

My main concern is that the Cygwin Perl installer may get confused.  I
currently have this in my Cygwin environment.  It doesn't appear that
such a change will be a problem:

  PERL5LIB=/cygdrive/d/Home/perl5/lib/perl5:/cygdrive/d/Home/perl5/lib/perl5:/cygdrive/d/Home/perl5/lib/perl5

Is there anything else I'm missing?

-- 
Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu>, https://ad1c.us

             reply	other threads:[~2022-11-17 16:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-17 16:58 Jim Reisert AD1C [this message]
2022-11-17 18:24 ` Andrey Repin
2022-11-17 22:57   ` Jim Reisert AD1C

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