/etc/profile always does a "cd $HOME"

[Gerrit P. Haase]

Sven Köhler wrote:
>>i'd like to use cygwin from a normal windows-app. The problem is, that i
>>need a login-shell, so that all environment-vars are properly set. The
>>problem: bash -li always changes the current workdir!
> 
> 
> So here's what i'd like to do. Perhaps you could help me with that:
> 
> I'm trying to execute make from a regular windows app. imagine if
> batch-file if it helps. So my batch-file would look like that
> 
> c:\cygwin\bin\bash -lc "make"
> 
> If i use bash without the "-l", the PATH variable contains too few
> entries, and make isn't found. Besides changed the PATH-variable
> manually, which possibility is there to execute a command within a fully
> functional cygwin environment?

Just add x:/cygwin/bin to the global PATH and call make directly?


Gerrit
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