Re: git-gui cannot find share/git-gui under cygwin

From: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 19, 2007, 18:41 UTC
Message-ID: <4678236A.9000606@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070619144928.GA8477@spearce.org>

Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

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> Yuck.  I'm considering applying the following.  It works ok on Mac
> OS X where the bug isn't triggered anyway.  ;-) I won't be able to
> test on Cygwin until tomorrow.
>
>

sorry, no joy. The problem is that gitexecdir=/usr/bin, but...

/usr/bin is a Cygwin mount point that points at c:\cygwin\bin.

so...

$ cygpath -m -a /bin C:/cygwin/bin $ cygpath -m -a /usr C:/cygwin/usr $ cygpath -m -a /usr/bin C:/cygwin/bin $ cygpath -m -a /usr/share C:/cygwin/usr/share

and the result is that both exedir_SQ and libdir_SQ have the value /usr/share/git-gui-lib

I don't think there is a portable solution here. Maybe just say

    if test "$(uname_O)" = Cygwin; then \
        GITGUI_RELATIVE=; \
 
and be done with it.

Mark