| Bug #25157 | destination path for .zip (no installer) MyODBC incorrectly set. | ||
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| Submitted: | 18 Dec 2006 22:01 | Modified: | 15 Mar 2007 21:49 |
| Reporter: | Daniel DiSisto | Email Updates: | |
| Status: | Closed | Impact on me: | |
| Category: | Connector / ODBC | Severity: | S3 (Non-critical) |
| Version: | 3.51.12 | OS: | Windows (Windows (All)) |
| Assigned to: | Kent Boortz | CPU Architecture: | Any |
[12 Jan 2007 11:13]
Valeriy Kravchuk
Thank you for a bug report. Verified just as described. One will find references to \Windows\System32 in Install.bat and Uninistall.bat, and this is, indeed, is incorrect for NT/2000 at least.
[15 Mar 2007 21:49]
Kent Boortz
Thank you for your bug report. This issue has been committed to our source repository of that product and will be incorporated into the next release, 3.51.15.
Description: file: mysql-connector-odbc-noinstall-3.51.12-win32 \Install.bat \Uninstall.bat For the windows .zip distribution (no installer), the batch files included have the destination path as 'C:\Windows\System32'. When running these batch files on a system on which windows is not installed at C:\Windows, the batch file causes a bunch of errors and doesn't work. On Win2k, XP, and others, the default Windows install path is actually <drive>:\WINNT, where <drive> is not necessarily going to be C: - this means that on the vast majority of Windows systems in use today, the batch files are broken. How to repeat: Run the install\uninstall batch files on any Windows system where Windows is installed to a path other than C:\Windows Suggested fix: Windows has an environment variable for the install path that can be used instead of having the absolute path explicitly defined. To make use of this, replace all occurrences of C:\Windows\System32 with %windir%\System32 (type 'echo %windir%' at a Windows command prompt to see where this goes) Note: you could instead use %SystemRoot%, which expands to exactly the same thing as %windir% and is the preferred variable to use on WinNT, 2k & XP, but this is not available on Win9x. For compatibility with all Windows version from Win9x to Vista, I would recommend using %windir%.