On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 21:02:35 +0200, Kees-Jan Dijkzeul wrote: > 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? Ask cygwin folks to teach their wish their symlinks? You could also try putting a git.bat somewhere in path, that would set the path and run true git from /usr/local/stow/git-1.5.2.2/bin. -- Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@xxxxxx>
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