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From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Latest cygwin.bat - need one
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 03:07:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EE6C16B.8050103@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111213013746.GJ11542@mrvideo.vidiot.com>

[Sorry, I again accidentally replied to the OP instead of to the list.]

On 12/12/2011 8:37 PM, Mike Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 04:11:48PM -0800, Gary Johnson wrote:
>>      General
>>          [Name:] Cygwin Terminal
>>      Shortcut
>>          Target: C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -i /Cygwin-Terminal.ico -
>>          Start in: [empty]
>>          Shortcut key: None
>>          Run: Normal window
>>          [Icon:] C:\cygwin\Cygwin-Termina.ico
>
> Thanks, I created a shortcut with the above info and it is close.
>
> It starts and it finds my shell and my config files.  But $SHELL is empty
> and the terminal has no clue as to where any of the Cygwin programs are.
> The PATH that is created before any of my files are read contains info on
> Windblows program locations, but nowhere is /usr/bin or /bin, or any of the
> long path names to the Cygwin binaries.
>
> When started from the cygwin.bat file, "/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:" prefice
> the Windblows paths.  So, a PATH that includes the needed info to the cygwin
> binaries is built when BAT is run, but not when mintty is started.
>
> Is there a reason why Cygwin is not building a PATH with the needed info?

Are you sure you didn't forget the `-' at the end of the target?  That's 
what tells mintty to start your shell as a login shell, in which case 
the commands in /etc/profile should get executed.  One of the commands 
in the default /etc/profile adds /usr/local/bin and /usr/bin to PATH. 
Have you modified /etc/profile?

Ken

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-12-13  3:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-12  5:48 Mike Brown
2011-12-12  6:31 ` Mike Brown
2011-12-12  7:13   ` Tim McDaniel
2011-12-12  8:01     ` Mike Brown
2011-12-12 15:45   ` Ken Brown
2011-12-12 17:45     ` Mike Brown
2011-12-12 20:19       ` Jeremy Bopp
2011-12-12 20:28       ` Ken Brown
2011-12-12 21:24         ` Mike Brown
2011-12-12 21:30           ` Jeremy Bopp
2011-12-13  0:11             ` Gary Johnson
2011-12-13  1:38               ` Mike Brown
2011-12-13  2:07                 ` mintty Mike Brown
2011-12-13  3:07                 ` Ken Brown [this message]
2011-12-13  4:24                   ` Latest cygwin.bat - need one Mike Brown
2011-12-13  3:12                 ` Jeremy Bopp
2011-12-13 11:34     ` Corinna Vinschen

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