From: Han-Wen Nienhuys Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 14:29:42 GMT Subject: Re: GIT on MinGW problem Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <465C184F.F6053C0C@eudaptics.com> 2007/5/29, Johannes Sixt : > > I get that here too, no matter what I set the mount point to be, and > > without the fstab file at all. > > When I inserted '/usr/bin/sort' I had checked for 'which sort' on my > Linux and it gave me /usr/bin/sort. Now I see that /bin/sort is probably > the canonical path to sort on any *nix. Will change that. But is this > also true for 'find'? I suggest that you add $PATH appropriately (prepending /bin and /usr/bin/ ) and then let the OS figure it out. The other option is to write an autoconf test to discover the proper path. > > Also, the /bin/gitk.bat file should rather be > > @"%~d0%~p0wish84.exe" "%~d0%~p0gitk" %* > > than the current hardcoded path. (Probably won't work with > > command.com, but who uses that for development nowadays anyways, right ;-) > > Nice trick! But don't try this at home without parental guidance! It > fills your screen with recursive console window invocations of itself. > > I put this into gitk.cmd (didn't try .bat): > > @start wish84.exe "%~d0%~p0gitk" %* > > assuming wish84 is in the PATH (which is probably a sane assumption > because either it is part of the installer, in which case it should have > set up the PATH, or you have Tcl/Tk installed for some other reason, in > which case you will want to have it in the PATH, too). > > Futhermore, I like to have the GUI sent into the background > automatically and without opening another console window, hence, the use > of 'start'. I'll have a look at this when I have time. What the hell is %~d0%~p0 ? -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanwen@xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen