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protz / ocaml-installer

The official windows installer (built using NSIS) for OCaml
http://protz.github.com/ocaml-installer/
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Windows User Name With Spaces #49

Open KNTUM opened 8 years ago

KNTUM commented 8 years ago

Hello,

unfortunately I first had a windows user name containing Spaces. Therefore often files and directories could not been found. So I used the mkpasswd and modified it in order to change the Cygwin user. And I also changed the User name of my windows account. Now it seems that the installation worked but at the end of each insatllation or update command there comes a message that the \tmp\opam-old user name with spaces-Number cannot be removed.

From where does the system get the old user? Is there a way to omit the problem?

msprotz commented 8 years ago

Hmm... I don't know about it.

I basically gave up on installation paths for OCaml containing spaces: most of the build scripts and Makefiles are incapable of dealing with paths that contain spaces (even on Unix).

KNTUM commented 8 years ago

I do not want to install the OCaml on paths with spaces. The home directory and everything now is complete without spaces. The question I have is where does Cygwin or the Make Files get the old user name with spaces and ist there a way to change this. Normally I thought it would be fine if it change the user name of the Cygwin user. Unfortunately this did not help with this temp directories.

msprotz commented 8 years ago

Yep, I don't know about that. This sounds more like a cygwin-specific question, and my cygwin expertise, while greater than I would hope for, remains limited.