RE: bash incorrectly determines HOME and HOMEDRIVE

["Ken Thompson" <ken dot thompson at gtri dot gatech dot edu>]

I don't think this is really a bash issue.  I think HOMEDRIVE is actually
set by XP and bash is just importing it.  Cygwin has a default for NOME if
it is not set but it is unlikely to be what you desire.  Just set the
environment variable HOMEDRIVE to 'H:' and it will do exactly what you wish.
The correct procedure on Cygwin is to manually set the environment variables
to whatever you wish them to be

								Ken


> -----Original Message-----
>
> Ralf G. R. Bergs
> Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 3:42 PM
>
> Subject: bash incorrectly determines HOME and HOMEDRIVE
>
>
> [Please CC: me in your replies, since I'm not subscribed to this list. I
> will post a summary if I receive enough response.]
>
>
> Hi there,
>
> I've a quite unusual setup on my XP box since my profile directory is
> NOT on the XP system drive. I moved it from there onto a separate
> partition.
>
> ALL Windoze apps are happy and succeed to determine the correct profile
> path when storing application data, but Cygwin fails. :-(
>
> My system drive is E:, and Cygwin incorrectly sets HOMEDRIVE to E: and
> HOME to "E:\Documents and Settings\rabe". The correct location of HOME
> is "H:\Documents and Settings\rabe", so HOMEDRIVE should be set to H:.
>
> I've manually set the correct values in XP's "System Properties ->
> Environment Variables". That makes HOME appear correctly in a bash, but
> HOMEDRIVE is still incorrect (E:). I suspect it's a bug in bash.
>
> Can anyone check whether my assumption is correct?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ralf
>
>
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