Re: EDB installer should check for valid %COMSPEC%

We may make the changes in the installer so that it displays the COMSPEC
value in the error message itself. Currently, we can get it's value from
the installer log.

But, I wonder why the installer threw the error when the manual run
"%COMSPEC%" /c echo "test ok" returned fine. Let's see what the installer
log says.

On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:

> 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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