[savannah-help-public] Fwd: [sr #108337] rdiff installed in wrong place on Win x64

[Aaron Shumaker]

Not sure if you're watching the bug tracker for jbackpack but had a bug report below I wanted to make sure you saw.  I have worked around the issue myself and don't need help, but wanted to make you aware of the issue.  Thanks.

-Aaron

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From: anonymous <address@hidden>
Date: Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 11:04 PM
Subject: [sr #108337] rdiff installed in wrong place on Win x64
To: address@hidden, Ronny Standtke <address@hidden>


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                 Summary: rdiff installed in wrong place on Win x64
                 Project: JBackpack
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Tue 09 Jul 2013 03:04:29 AM UTC
                Category: None
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                Severity: 4 - Important
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
        Originator Email: address@hidden
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
        Operating System: Microsoft Windows

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Details:

On Windows 7 x64 the installer prompts you to place rdiff backup in the wrong
folder, and thus the installer is stuck in an endless loop as it cannot locate
rdiff.  The proper folder should be C:\Windows\SysWOW64 if your process is a
32bit process.

It opens the C:\Windows\System32 folder when prompting for install, but I
assume that when it verifies the existence of rdiff then it is being
redirected to C:\Windows\SysWOW64.  So it is installed to one place, but
looked for in another.

Ensure that the process that opens the folder, and the process that checks for
the file, are both 32bit to ensure they are consistently redirected to
SysWOW64, as that might explain the inconsistency.  It might also be a case of
using a different variable/wildcard name for the system folder in one place
but no the other.  I can only speculate.  Good luck and thanks.

Workaround: manually copy rdiff from the System32 folder to the SysWOW64
folder.




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