Bash initialization w/cygwin-1.7 on NT4
Christopher Faylor
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Mon Jul 6 04:52:00 GMT 2009
On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 05:20:41AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>Jerry DeLisle wrote:
>> I am making the switch to 1.7. I started with a clean windows (nt4)
>> environment and went through the usual run of setup-1.7 downloaded today.
>>
>> All appears fine, but bash does not get initialized.
>>
>> pwd is /usr/bin
>>
>> path is not set
>>
>> home directory is not created
>>
>> These are all taken care of nicely for the user with cygwin 1.5
>>
>> I think this is a bug unless I am missing something in the install process.
>
>This is symptomatic of a problem preventing the postinstall scripts
>from having run correctly, isn't it? Have a look in your
>/var/log/setup.log* files, and see what happened to
>base-files-profile.sh.
I can actually duplicate this problem on my NT4 virtual machine.
Unfortunately, I won't have a lot of time to track this down next
week but I'll get to it if no one else beats me to it.
cgf
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