From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22826 invoked by alias); 25 Apr 2003 22:41:07 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 22818 invoked from network); 25 Apr 2003 22:41:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO slinky.cs.nyu.edu) (128.122.20.14) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 25 Apr 2003 22:41:06 -0000 Received: from localhost (pechtcha@localhost) by slinky.cs.nyu.edu (8.11.7+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id h3PMf5l22760; Fri, 25 Apr 2003 18:41:05 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 00:00:00 -0000 From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Qwer Zxcv cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: what determines cygwin path? In-Reply-To: <20030425223820.89543.qmail@web14811.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2003-04/txt/msg02276.txt.bz2 On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, Qwer Zxcv wrote: > 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? "man mount" > * Is $PATH (at the end) coming only from the windows path, or from > somewhere else? Only from Windows (it is converted to POSIX, though). > * What other user customizations are relevant? Anything in your home directory, any /etc/* files you've customized... Anything you installed in /usr/local/bin... Maybe something else. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. -- Leto II -- 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/