Accessing gpgkeys_* fails on Windows

Patrick Brunschwig patrick at mozilla-enigmail.org
Sat Jul 9 12:49:31 CEST 2005


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David Shaw wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 06:55:39PM +0200, Patrick Brunschwig wrote:
> 
>>I just noticed that gpg 1.4.2rc2 is not able to find gpgkeys_hkp.exe. I
>>have installed GnuPG using the Windows installer, but to a non-default
>>directory (E:\GnuPG\GnuPG).
>>According to the debug log, gpg is looking for gpgkeys_hkp in c:\lib;
>>but that directory doesn't exist:
>>gpg: DBG: expanding string "c:\lib\gnupg\gpgkeys_hkp -o "%o" "%i""
>>
>>I looked into the source code and I could imagine the reason to be
>>DISABLE_KEYSERVER_PATH not being enabled. Is this correct?
> 
> 
> This is an interesting situation.  The code was compiled with one
> path, but installed under a different one.
> 
> What happens if you stick "exec-path e:\GnuPG\GnuPG" in your gpg.conf
> file?

In this case, gpgkeys_* is found correctly.

- -Patrick
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