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Re: [HEADSUP] Let's start a Cygwin 1.7 release area
Quoting Charles Wilson <cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm>:
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 06:01:37PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
Yep. A few things off the top of my head:
1) the shells need to install both in /bin and /usr/bin. This is up
to the individual maintainers when they build their -1.7 versions,
but to take on super-duper important shell:
Or "tough. you want to run /bin/bash, ensure /usr/bin is in your PATH"
^^^^ ^^^^^^^^
Yes.
Geez. This was the really-just-a-joke-WJM response. Doing this will
cause no END of trouble and lots of FAQs. It means I can't have a
shortcut whose target is
"C:/cygwin17/bin/bash -e somescript"
or even
"cmd /k C:/cygwin17/bin/bash.exe -e somescript"
unless my environment settings (either system or personal) force
/usr/bin into my PATH (otherwise /bin/bash can't find cygintl-8.dll
and friends).
The heartburn can be solved with an /etc/profile. Set PATH in it and
you're done. Changing the PATH to the user liking should be done in
the ~/.profile file.
Earnie -- http://for-my-kids.com/
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