Accessing gpgkeys_* fails on Windows

[Patrick Brunschwig]

David Shaw wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 12:49:31PM +0200, Patrick Brunschwig wrote:
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> Good.  I'm not sure what the best answer for this is.  GPG needs to
> know what the path is to the gpgkeys_* programs since they may not be
> in your $PATH.  Unfortunately, by installing it in a different
> directory, the default path no longer points to the right place.
> Perhaps the right answer is to have the Windows installer append the
> "exec-path" to the gpg.conf file at install time for people who don't
> put GPG in the default place.

In case there is no exec-path entry in gpg.conf, would it not be easier
to check in the Windows registry for the path where gpg is installed?

-Patrick