Brian,
On Apr 21 19:48, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Apr 21 16:04, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Apr 16 10:44, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > On Apr 15 19:28, Brian Dessent wrote:
> > > > So, with that in
> > > > mind, are there any objections to simply HK{LM,CU}\Software\Cygwin?
> > >
> > > Just go ahead.
> >
> > I did now. I just checked in a change which
> >
> > - drops reading mount points from the registry entirely,
> >
> > - let the postinstall script (which still should be moved to its own
> > package) create /etc/fstab entries from the old system registry
> > mount points.
> >
> > - Sets the Cygwin parent registry keys to HKLM\Software\Cygwin and
> > HKCU\Software\Cygwin.
> >
> > I guess now the way is free for setup.exe to utilize the new registry
> > locations as well.
>
> Btw., just FYI, utils/path.cc doesn't build right now since it still
> tries to pull mount points from the registry. I'm working on changing
> that to utilizing fstab files instead.
it just occured to me that I need the exact key name which setup will
use to store the root directory of the installation. I nedd it to get
cygcheck working, even if it's not installed into the same path as the
Cygwin DLL.
"{HKLM,HKCU}\Software\Cygwin\???"
??? = "Setup\root" maybe? Or with a version number?
Corinna
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