Forward/Backward Slash Issue - please help!

[janhar]

I need *emergency* assistance if possible and would appreciate any assistance I can get!
Honestly I'm ready to just tar the directory up and ship the flat structure.
This has been the most difficult to navigate, complicated, time consuming product
I have used in years.

We need to ship AIX, Windows and Linux installers. While the platform settings indicate the
forward/backward slash settings, the values in the installer are incorrect and there is no way
to modify in the panels!

How do I avoid invalid directory delimiters?

The default setting in my Windows installation:
USER_INSTALL_DIR=C:\\Program Files\\IBM/AIX-IC_6.1

(Note the forward slash before AIX-IC!!!)

I have not modified platform settings.

In the "Install" panel, all files and speed folders show
Destination Path: "User Install Folder" with a "/" which cannot be modified.

The installation proceeds,see log below... however errors occur during uninstall, presumably
because of this forward slash.

Install Directory: C:\Program Files\IBM/AIX-IC_6.1/eclipse\
Status: SUCCESSFUL

Install File: C:\Program Files\IBM\AIX-IC_6.1\eclipse\configuration................
Status: SUCCESSFUL

Shouldn't IA handle these slashes accordingly? The Installer panel is not specific to platform, so I honestly don't know how that is even possible.

I should note - it appears to vary based on the platform on which I'm running. If on AIX the default slash following User Install Folder is "/" - but again - I'm building for multiple platforms. That is the point of using IA

Thanks to anyone for guidance!

[jerome_IA]

Whenever you use path separator, you need to use "$/$" which will be set to the correct "/" or "\" according to the platform on which the installation will occur.

>In the "Install" panel, all files and speed folders show
>Destination Path: "User Install Folder" with a "/" which cannot be modified.

This is because you use IA on Unix, but do not care about this, it will be handled correctly at installation time.

Did this help?

--Jerome

[janhar]

Thanks Jerome!
I could not find where I had manually added such separators, so in the XML file I corrected the slash here (which was wrong)

IBM\$PRODUCT_NAME$


That seemed to work. I will take heed to your recommendation of "$/$" for future updates as well, and thanks for pointing that out!

jerome_IA wrote:
Whenever you use path separator, you need to use "$/$" which will be set to the correct "/" or "\" according to the platform on which the installation will occur.

>In the "Install" panel, all files and speed folders show
>Destination Path: "User Install Folder" with a "/" which cannot be modified.

This is because you use IA on Unix, but do not care about this, it will be handled correctly at installation time.

Did this help?

--Jerome

[janhar]

Does that mean that I should also change
this: $USER_INSTALL_DIR$/eclipse
to this:$USER_INSTALL_DIR$$/$eclipse

jerome_IA wrote:
Whenever you use path separator, you need to use "$/$" which will be set to the correct "/" or "\" according to the platform on which the installation will occur.

>In the "Install" panel, all files and speed folders show
>Destination Path: "User Install Folder" with a "/" which cannot be modified.

This is because you use IA on Unix, but do not care about this, it will be handled correctly at installation time.

Did this help?

--Jerome

[RamyaVenkatesh]

Hi,

Yes, it is always advisabe to use $/$ instead of platform specific path separators. You will not face any issues with this when buiding installers for multiplatform.

Thanks