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Bug #33115 Windows Install Silent Option breaks OS environment path variable
Submitted: 2005-05-24 04:16 UTC Modified: 2005-12-20 12:09 UTC
Votes:1
Avg. Score:5.0 ± 0.0
Reproduced:1 of 1 (100.0%)
Same Version:1 (100.0%)
Same OS:1 (100.0%)
From: john dot jantjes at gmail dot com Assigned: phildriscoll (profile)
Status: Closed Package: IIS related
PHP Version: 5.0.4, 4.3.11 OS: Windows XP
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2005-05-24 04:16 UTC] john dot jantjes at gmail dot com 
Description:
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I have been using the windows installer, with the "/s" option for a silent install, and have found that it breaks the OS environment variable.

For example

Instread of path being

path=c:\windows;c:\windows\system32; .....

It becomes

path=%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\system32;......

It set the path variable to reference another variable, which just does not seem to work.  Only the windows and windows system entries in path are effected.

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 [2005-05-24 04:20 UTC] john dot jantjes at gmail dot com 
If the installer is used normally, not silent, the issue does not appear.
 [2005-11-07 00:03 UTC] sniper@php.net 
Phil, have you checked this report yet..?
 [2005-12-19 09:08 UTC] sniper@php.net 
Does this happen with the latest release? (5.1.1)
 [2005-12-20 01:24 UTC] john dot jantjes at gmail dot com 
No, 5.1 has resolved this issue.

This ticket can be closed.
 [2005-12-20 12:09 UTC] phildriscoll@php.net 
The installer software did not change between versions, so 
I suspect that the original cause of the problem was 
something other than the installer - perhaps a screwed up 
environment being passed to the installer at startup. 
I'm not a windows user, but I wonder if this is a problem 
at all, since %SystemRoot% would most likely correctly 
resolve to c:\windows in any event.
 
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