Re: [Mingw-msys] how do I get the folder where msys resides in a shellscript?

[Brian Dessent <brian@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

basinilya@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> How do I get these values: 'U:\msys\1.0', 'U:\MinGW'?
> For now three solutions come to mind: edit msys.bat or parse the second line of 'set' command output
> $ set
> !::='::\'
> !U:='U:\msys\1.0\bin'
> 
> or parse the 'mount' command output

You're overthinking it.  Path translation is MSYS' bread and butter.

msysroot=`cd / && pwd -W`
mingwroot=`cd /mingw && pwd -W`

Brian

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