Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Installation hangs because asks for input from terminal (Attn: tetex maintainer, setup maintainer) References: <41416E12.30103@math.md> <87llfenmgx.fsf@peder.flower> <874qm2nigl.fsf@peder.flower> <87d60qm23w.fsf@peder.flower> <20040913185733.GC21468@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen Organization: Jan at Appel Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 21:05:43 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20040913185733.GC21468@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> (Christopher Faylor's message of "Mon, 13 Sep 2004 14:57:33 -0400") Message-ID: <87wtyykn08.fsf@peder.flower> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner X-IsSubscribed: yes Note-from-DJ: This may be spam Christopher Faylor writes: > No, you can't have a completely empty environment on Windows. There > are some environment variables that really have to be there. I understand that, can't we make a list of those essential variables, and wouldn't it be nice if setup.exe copied those essential variables only? And if so, what about /etc/profile? Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/