> > (1) Unison is looking in $UNISON last. This is clearly wrong,
and if
> > fixed would allow you to solve your problem by setting
> > UNISON=/home/volker/.unison. But here's something I don't understand:
> > on my Cygwin host both UNISON and USERPROFILE are set, but UNISON takes
> > precedence. ?? Are you sure this section of code is the operative one
> > here? What happens if you export UNISON=/home/vzell/.unison?
>
> In that case it will use $UNISON.
> According to the file strings.ml:
>
> \032 Unison stores a variety of information in a private directory on each\n\
> \032 host. If the environment variable UNISON is defined, then its value\n\
> \032 will be used as the name of this directory. If UNISON is not defined,\n\
> \032 then the name of the directory depends on which operating system you\n\
> \032 are using. In Unix, the default is to use $HOME/.unison. In Windows,\n\
> \032 if the environment variable USERPROFILE is defined, then the directory\n\
> \032 will be $USERPROFILE\\.unison; otherwise if HOME is defined, it will
> be\n\
> \032 $HOME\\.unison; otherwise, it will be c:\\.unison.\n\
> \032 \n\
Okay, but that's not what the code snippet you cited appears to show:
match osType with
`Win32 ->
let dirString =
try Unix.getenv "USERPROFILE" (* Windows NT/2K *)
with Not_found ->
try Unix.getenv "HOME" (* Windows 9x with Cygwin HOME set *)
with Not_found ->
try Unix.getenv "UNISON" (* Use UNISON dir if none of
the above are set *)
with Not_found -> "c:/" (* Default *) in
I don't know OCaml, but that sure looks to me as though $UNISON is only
used if $USERPROFILE and $HOME are not set. And yet that behavior
doesn't match what I observe on my host. So that's why I asked, what
happens if you export UNISON=/home/volker/.unison and rerun? Does
unison use $UNISON, or $USERPROFILE/.unison?
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