[cvsnt] Re: Problem with post install custom action

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Thu Apr 7 17:13:26 BST 2005


Casey Schmit wrote:
> The installer should either lay these files down into the system32
> directory(since they are packaged as part of the install anyways) or the

It's forbidden by MS to do this.

> custom action should be statically linked to the C runtime.  Once these
> files were added to the system32 directory, the install completed without a
> problem.

The files are in the same directory as the postinst.exe, where the 
executable resides.  This works as documented - the executable directory 
is always searched.  Part of the release testing is installing on clean 
systems and if it didn't work it would have been noticed long before this.

Tony



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