From: Qwer Zxcv <partner4progress@yahoo.com>
To: Max Bowsher <maxb@ukf.net>
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: what determines cygwin path?
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 23:59:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030425223820.89543.qmail@web14811.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <004701c30b78$9019b210$78d96f83@pomello>
Qwer Zxcv wrote:
>>> So what I'd like to know is, how is cygwin's path determined?
>>> (Apparently not entirely by the windows path, at least not by
>>> default.) And how do I fix it?
Max Bowsher wrote:
>> Windows + /etc/profile + any user customisation.
Can you be more specific about "any user customisation"?
I know how to fix the windows path. I know how to fix /etc/profile,
which is currently
> qwerzxcv@qwerzxcv /d/bin/cygwin/1.3.13-1/bin
> $ less ../etc/profile
> PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:$PATH"
> USER="`id -un`"
> # Set up USER's home directory
> if [ -z "$HOME" ]; then
> HOME="/home/$USER"
> fi
> if [ ! -d "$HOME" ]; then
> mkdir -p "$HOME"
> fi
> export HOME USER
> for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh ; do
> if [ -f $i ]; then
> . $i
> fi
> done
> export MAKE_MODE=unix
> export PS1='\[\033]0;\w\007
> \033[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\]
> $ '
> cd "$HOME"
thus seems not to be problematic. What I don't know is, in
> PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:$PATH"
* Where are
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
set?
* Is $PATH (at the end) coming only from the windows path, or from
somewhere else?
* What other user customizations are relevant?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-25 22:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-25 21:38 [newbie] how to install cygwin by version? and fix breakage? Qwer Zxcv
2003-04-25 22:05 ` Max Bowsher
2003-04-25 22:34 ` Qwer Zxcv
2003-04-25 22:38 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2003-04-25 23:52 ` Qwer Zxcv
2003-04-25 23:06 ` what determines cygwin path? Qwer Zxcv
2003-04-25 23:41 ` Max Bowsher
2003-04-25 23:59 ` Qwer Zxcv [this message]
2003-04-26 0:00 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2003-04-26 0:29 ` rollback procedure, was: " Qwer Zxcv
2003-04-26 0:38 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2003-04-26 0:10 ` Max Bowsher
2003-04-26 2:04 ` rollback procedure, was: " Qwer Zxcv
2003-04-26 2:48 ` Max Bowsher
2003-04-26 3:09 ` rollback procedure Qwer Zxcv
2003-04-26 4:53 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2003-04-26 15:18 ` setup re-install, or rollforward procedure? Qwer Zxcv
2003-04-26 15:48 ` Elfyn McBratney
2003-04-26 3:03 ` rollback procedure, was: what determines cygwin path? Igor Pechtchanski
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