On February 6, 2007 3:50 PM Francois Maltey wrote: > > I have installed axiom and msys as root in windows xp for > some students. It's all right !
msys is not necessary to use Axiom on windows - only if you need to build Axiom from source. > > But I don't want theses students are root in windows xp. > So I create an other login. > How did you install Axiom in Windows? From the binary install program or from source? > I change rights of the axiom directory and the msys directory. > Now they are read/write/and others for all users. > > When I run axiom in this login I get a boot error. > Axiom is looking for a file in a very long path in msys > inside 8 or 10 sub-sub-directory. This file isn't in the msys > directory. > It sounds like the AXIOM environment variable is not set. > This computer is at work and my mail at home... So I can't be > more precise. > > May you help me ? > To check the AXIOM variable go to: Start/ControlPanel/System/Advanced/EnvironmentVariables and check that the 'System variables' table includes Variable Name: AXIOM Variable Value: c:/Program Files/axiom/mnt/windows It is possible that Axiom was originally installed for a single user only, in which case the AXIOM variable may only be defined for that specific user in the 'Users varaibles for ...'. Regards, Bill Page. _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
