Re: EDB installer should check for valid %COMSPEC%

[Craig Ringer <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/19/2012 05:14 PM, Dave Page wrote:

check %COMSPEC% to see if it really
> points to cmd.exe .

Interesting - thanks for the info Craig. Sandeep; can you please look
into adding such a check to the installer. We already test the
_vbscript_ interpreter, so this should go in the same place.

I've just seen a Stack Overflow report related to this that might be of interest. The user reports that the installer fails with:

" The environment variable COMPSPEC does not seem to point to the cmd.exe or there is a trailing semi colon present."

This appears to be a new message and they're using 9.2, so I'm guessing this was the test added. It doesn't appear to actually *mention the value of the COMSPEC environment variable* though. I've asked them for the installer log, but it'd be good to identify this in the message if possible.

The question of interest: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15287207/problems-installing-postgresql-9-2

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