> On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > Yes, but that doesn't guarantee that you would *run* that > version. Again, > the Cygwin version of bash will *not* look for > /usr/local/etc/profile.global -- that message comes from some > other bash. > The analysis is correct, AFAICS. > > One thing to try is to change the last line of your cygwin.bat to > > c:\cygwin\bin\bash --login -i > > and see if that solves your problem (with the original config)...
I did as you suggested and the problem still happens. I backed out my environment variables changes (to HOME and PATH), and ran cygwin.bat as-is and reverified that the problem happened again. Then I edited cygwin.bat as you suggested and reran the script with the same result. Here's the shell output for reference: ----- C:\cygwin>type cygwin.bat @echo off C: chdir C:\cygwin\bin C:\cygwin\bin\bash --login -i C:\cygwin>cygwin.bat /usr/bin/bash: can't find configuration file /usr/local/etc/profile.global; exiting. ----- As a side note, I've never installed bash in another form on my PC and running "bash" from C:\ in a DOS prompt does not work. > > After contacting Chloe directly, > > Ugh. She was way too polite. Unsolicited private emails to > random list > posters are highly discouraged -- the Cygwin mailing list is > the place to > ask for help. Well, with all due respect, I can see that contacting Cygwin maintainers and developers is a Bad Thing (tm), but contacting ordinary users is no mortal sin. I was polite to her and she was polite in return. I followed up by posting to the mailing list so the info would not be lost. > I suspect you're still not running the official Cygwin bash > -- it should > set HOME automatically. As I said above, try forcing the > Cygwin bash by > specifying the path to it explicitly. I don't know much about the implementation of Cygwin bash, but perhaps it has a bug and it's not setting HOME like it should? I think from the info I posted above that it's clearly not working as intended. Thank you for your help so far, Igor. - Jason Fritz -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
