On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 12:37:21PM -0700, Andrew Grimm wrote: > The major problem is that $shell and $SHELL are now getting set to > /tmp/install/usr/bin/tcsh instead of /usr/bin/tcsh. This is causing the > shell to fail, say in an xterm, trying to exec $SHELL. > > I verified that this problem resides in the executable rather than my > configuration files by examining it with strings.
Thanks for the report. I tracked it down to be a flaw in Makefile.in. > There is another problem which is not new to this release, but I feel > should be corrected. The default /etc/csh.login should have two lines > changed in this manner: > > set path=( /usr/local/bin /usr/bin /bin $path:q ) > > The $path:q preserves spaces in spacey MS pathnames. Right now path > elements like "Program Files" are resulting in multiple bad entries from > the inherited Windows path. This hurts performance. > > set TERM=cygwin > > The current setting of "linux" is not correct for the Cygwin shell window, > I think. Again, thanks for these two hints! I've just uploaded a -4 release which has the correct $SHELL setting and both of your fixes to csh.login. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/