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Re: what determines cygwin path?
- From: Qwer Zxcv <partner4progress at yahoo dot com>
- To: Max Bowsher <maxb at ukf dot net>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 15:38:20 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: what determines cygwin path?
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 at 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 at \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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