[PATCH] Re: missing sh.exe in coreutils

[Christopher Faylor]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 08:30:03AM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
>On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 11:20:41AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>> On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Brian Dessent wrote:
>> > However, I just noticed something that will make life a lot easier - it
>> > sets the CYGWINROOT environment variable when running a script.  This
>> > means that we should be able to just have a single .bat file containing
>> >
>> > @copy /y %CYGWINROOT$\bin\bash.exe %CYGWINROOT%\bin\sh.exe
>> >
>> > This needs testing, but it should work.
>> 
>> Yep, it should (if you replace the '$' by a '%' in the first
>> '%CYGWINROOT$' >:-D).
>
>And assuming the user hasn't mounted /bin somewhere other than
>%CYGWINROOT%\bin.
>
>But I'm guessing if that were the case other parts of setup.exe would break
>anyway.

Actually, the last I checked, setup.exe was able to figure out where
/bin was located.  Maybe it should set a CYGWINBIN environment variable
or something.

cgf