gitk doesn't start due to cygwin wish not following symlinks?

From: Kees-Jan Dijkzeul <k.j.dijkzeul@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 3, 2007, 19:02 UTC
Message-ID: <fa0b6e200707031202g4a1248d8na22fbf99b215804@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

I'm using "stow" to manage several versions of git on my cygwin system. As a result, my /usr/local/bin contains a bunch of symlinks to the actual binaries in /usr/local/stow/git-1.5.2.2/bin.

This works like a charm, except that gitk won't start up, claiming, in turn, that it is unable to start git itself. After some investigation, I found that the "wish" that is supplied with cygwin isn't a true cygwin one, and hence doesn't understand cygwin style simlinks, and thus cannot start the /usr/local/bin/git symlink. It needs the true binary.

So for now, I've worked around this by updating the first few lines of the gitk script to read:

   #!/bin/sh
   # Tcl ignores the next line -*- tcl -*- \
   export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/stow/git-1.5.2.2/bin
   # Tcl ignores the next line also \
   exec wish "$0" -- "$@"

This works for me, but is admittedly butt-ugly. Any tips on how to handle this kind of situation?

Thanks a lot!

Groetjes,

Kees-Jan