Re: RFE?: CygWinDir in ENV? (was Re: How does one find where Cygwin was installed from Windows?)

2009-02-18 Thread rhubbell
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:47:10 -0500 Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com wrote: rhubbell wrote: Are you and Linda married by any chance? Now that's funny! :-) I'm glad you laughed, whew! That exchange had me a little worried about the list. But now I see all's fine. In

Re: RFE?: CygWinDir in ENV? (was Re: How does one find where Cygwin was installed from Windows?)

2009-02-18 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
rhubbell wrote: On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:47:10 -0500 Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. Thanks. rhubbell wrote: Are you and Linda married by any chance? Now that's funny! :-) I'm glad you laughed, whew! That exchange

RFE?: CygWinDir in ENV? (was Re: How does one find where Cygwin was installed from Windows?)

2009-02-10 Thread Linda Walsh
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: What do you think? Actually, this has been discussed already and has been resolved by having 1.7's 'setup.exe' putting the Cygwin root installation directory in... the registry! See HKLM/Software/Cygwin/setup, the rootdir value. I know, it's not in the

Re: RFE?: CygWinDir in ENV? (was Re: How does one find where Cygwin was installed from Windows?)

2009-02-10 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 02/10/2009, Linda Walsh wrote: Plblblblb! (*raz*) Um...so..um... I know it could spoil your day and all...but it really would be more *linux* like if it was added to the environment variables. OK, I need to be clear. I have nothing against the enviroment variable idea. I

Re: RFE?: CygWinDir in ENV? (was Re: How does one find where Cygwin was installed from Windows?)

2009-02-10 Thread rhubbell
Are you and Linda married by any chance? On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:36:49 -0500 Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com wrote: On 02/10/2009, Linda Walsh wrote: Plblblblb! (*raz*) Um...so..um... I know it could spoil your day and all...but it really would be

Re: RFE?: CygWinDir in ENV? (was Re: How does one find where Cygwin was installed from Windows?)

2009-02-10 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
rhubbell wrote: Are you and Linda married by any chance? Now that's funny! :-) In case I need to be crystal clear on this subject, no we have no common relationship beyond that of both being participants on this list. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK

Re: RFE?: CygWinDir in ENV? (was Re: How does one find where Cygwin was installed from Windows?)

2009-02-10 Thread Tim McDaniel
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, Linda Walsh cyg...@tlinx.org wrote: Then anything else in Cygwin that uses paths -- including setup's cygwin.bat could use %CygWinDir% Not that there's being a vote taken or anything, but I would like to support that notion. I have several trampoline scripts, a bat file

Re: RFE?: CygWinDir in ENV? (was Re: How does one find where Cygwin was installed from Windows?)

2009-02-10 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Tim McDaniel wrote: On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, Linda Walsh cygwin AT tlinx DOT org wrote: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. Thanks. Then anything else in Cygwin that uses paths -- including setup's cygwin.bat could use %CygWinDir% Not

Re: RFE?: CygWinDir in ENV? (was Re: How does one find where Cygwin was installed from Windows?)

2009-02-10 Thread Ralph Hempel
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: This can be done now, if you look back through the thread to all the different options I outlined and even a few scripts others have thrown in. What Linda is proposing here is simply having the mechanism for communicating this be an environment variable. While this

Re: RFE?: CygWinDir in ENV? (was Re: How does one find where Cygwin was installed from Windows?)

2009-02-10 Thread Tim McDaniel
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Tim McDaniel wrote: I have several trampoline scripts, a bat file doing nothing but invoking a corresponding bash shell script or Perl program. I have to hard-code a location for the bash / perl interpreter, but those locations change from user

Re: RFE?: CygWinDir in ENV? (was Re: How does one find where Cygwin was installed from Windows?)

2009-02-10 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Tim McDaniel wrote: On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Tim McDaniel wrote: I have several trampoline scripts, a bat file doing nothing but invoking a corresponding bash shell script or Perl program. I have to hard-code a location for the bash / perl interpreter, but those

Re: RFE?: CygWinDir in ENV? (was Re: How does one find where Cygwin was installed from Windows?)

2009-02-10 Thread Tim McDaniel
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, Larry Hall wrote: Tim McDaniel wrote: I have several trampoline scripts, a bat file doing nothing but invoking a corresponding bash shell script or Perl program. I have to hard-code a location for the bash / perl interpreter, but those locations change from user to user

Re: RFE?: CygWinDir in ENV? (was Re: How does one find where Cygwin was installed from Windows?)

2009-02-10 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Tim McDaniel wrote: On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, Larry Hall wrote: snip Sounds similar to Cygwin's 'regtool'. Definitely would be helpful if you're trying to batch script something like this. Well, not in *this* special case, because like this is trying to find the Cygwin installation in the

Re: RFE?: CygWinDir in ENV? (was Re: How does one find where Cygwin was installed from Windows?)

2009-02-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 06:22:21PM -0600, Tim McDaniel wrote: Well, not in *this* special case, because like this is trying to find the Cygwin installation in the first place; if it knew where regtool was, it would already know where Cygwin was installed ... You sort of have to know where reg or