[Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Fix mingw interactive questioning during installation to a fresh location

[Peter Bex]

Hi all,

I noticed that on Mingw without MSYS, if you install to a new location
where no previous installation of CHICKEN is, it will block on a question
like "Does \path\to\chicken\share\man\csi.mdoc.1 specify a file name or
directory name on the target (F = file, D = directory)?"
This doesn't happen when you overwrite a previous installation.

After some investigation it turns out that XCOPY has no way to suppress
this question when the target is a file.  In typical Microsoft fashion,
XCOPY has a flag to tell it that the target is always a directory name,
but not a corresponding flag for the _other_ answer.

So instead, let's use COPY.  I've tested, and it works when installing
to either a new location or a location where there already is a CHICKEN
installed.

This patch is only necessary on chicken-5; luckily, the commit that broke
this is not present in the master branch.

Cheers,
Peter

0001-Get-rid-of-interactive-prompts-during-install-on-min.patch
Description: Text Data

signature.asc
Description: Digital signature