what is the path you really want to be INSTALLROOT

On Thu, 1 Sep 2011 12:42:51 -0500 Richard Naff wrote:
> Follow-up:

> Thanks to Mark McCullough for the suggestion that I set $INSTALLROOT to .  

> I tried this but got the same results:
> -----------
> richard.naff@L6550b041 /
> $ INSTALLROOT=.

> richard.naff@L6550b041 /
> $ echo $INSTALLROOT
> .

> richard.naff@L6550b041 /
> $ /bin/package environment flat authorize "I accept 
> www.opensource.org/licenses/cpl" password "." setup binary 
> http://www.research.att.com/sw/download/ast-base.2011-02-08.cygwin.i386.tgz
> PACKAGEROOT=/
> export PACKAGEROOT
> HOSTTYPE=cygwin.i386
> export HOSTTYPE
> INSTALLROOT=/
> export INSTALLROOT
> -----------

> Apparently the package command is forcing both $INSTALLROOT and $PACKAGEROOT 
> to "/" no matter what their values before execution of package. I gather it's 
> due to some sort of values coded within the ast-base distribution package. I 
> don't know enough about how these packages are built nor how the package 
> command interprets the contents in order to work around this.

> What I need at the very least is a copy of ksh-93 properly installed into my 
> CygWin environment on my Win-7 machine. Is there a way to manually extract 
> the ksh components and apply them to my various CygWin directories?

> Richard Naff

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