Ticket Hash: | 44002a7760cf54060b426865bcdca5b81421cad1 | ||
Title: | cannot locate home directory - please set the HOMEPATH environment variable | ||
Status: | Fixed | Type: | Code_Defect |
Severity: | Important | Priority: | |
Subsystem: | Resolution: | Fixed | |
Last Modified: |
2011-05-09 12:55:40 14.15 years ago |
Created: |
2010-10-06 12:50:32 14.74 years ago |
Version Found In: | [092d763028] 2010-10-05 10:43:28 UTC |
Description: | ||||
Just seen this on Windows XP 32-bit:
C:\Users\buildbot\Reu2\bin\bga120\build>fossil pull fossil: cannot locate home directory - please set the HOMEPATH environment variable I think you want USERPROFILE rather than HOMEPATH. I've never seen HOMEPATH on a Windows machine, but USERPROFILE has been about since Windows 2000 (or earlier). Regards, wolfgang added on 2010-10-07 20:51:08: HOMEPATH is only a fallback, fossil searches the following environment variables in the given order: LOCALAPPDATA -> APPDATA -> HOMEPATH USERPROFILE might be added to this fallback chain, but i think there must be another problem on your machine, because LOCALAPPDATA and APPDATA are not found too. One remark: i think HOMEPATH in the current implementation might not on work on some installations. HOMEPATH contains only the path (f.e. /Profile/User) and does not give you the drive (c:). So fossil should read %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%. anonymous claiming to be arichardson added on 2010-10-08 08:20:15: I do have APPDATA but not LOCALAPPDATA. I don't think it can be looking for APPDATA because all sorts of programs would fail if I didn't have that defined. I would still argue for %USERPROFILE% over %HOMEDRIVE%/%HOMEPATH% because it only references one env var instead of two, and does the exact same thing, it seems. anonymous added on 2010-10-15 09:17:04: anonymous claiming to be ticica added on 2011-02-01 21:41:17 UTC: anonymous added on 2011-05-08 15:57:52 UTC: |