Re: 1.7.7: PATH in Bash shells

[Gerry Reno <greno at verizon dot net>]

On 02/06/2011 06:23 PM, David Sastre wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 03:43:42PM -0500, Gerry Reno wrote:
>   
>> On 02/06/2011 02:16 PM, David Sastre wrote:
>>     
>>> On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 01:33:37PM -0500, Gerry Reno wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> What is the proper method to set the PATH variable on a system-wide
>>>> basis in Cygwin?
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> First off, I'm curious about how do you start the bash shell. I ask
>>> because you don't seem to have PS1 set correctly, and that should be
>>> automated by startup-scripts. 
>>>       
>> I didn't change anything.  This is rather new installation of Cygwin.
>>
>> I have seen some postinstall script failures on a few packages but would
>> these be modifying the system-wide PATH variable?
>>
>> I have not changed anything about PATH anywhere.
>>
>>     
>>> The PATH variable in cygwin is exported from your /etc/profile
>>> file, which contains a line that sets cygwin's path with higher
>>> precedence over the PATH inherited from windows.
>>>       
>> Yep, I see it.  So why isn't it working?
>>
>>     
>>>> Is there some guiding document about setting PATH system-wide to better
>>>> support scripts from Linux?
>>>>         
>>>  
>>> Yes. The info you need is in the bash manpage, INVOCATION section.
>>>       
>> bash-4.1$ man bash
>> (END)
>>
>> No man pages.
>> How do you get the man page generated?
>> And here's the tail end of /var/log/setup.log.full:
>>
>>     2011/02/06 12:01:40 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc
>>     --noprofile /etc/post
>>     install/coreutils.sh
>>     2011/02/06 12:01:41 abnormal exit: exit code=128
>>     2011/02/06 12:01:41 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc
>>     --noprofile /etc/post
>>     install/bash.sh
>>     2011/02/06 12:01:41 abnormal exit: exit code=128
>>     2011/02/06 12:01:41 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc
>>     --noprofile /etc/post
>>     install/update-info-dir.sh
>>     2011/02/06 12:02:24 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc
>>     --noprofile /etc/post
>>     install/libglade2.0.sh
>>     could not open /etc/xml/catalog for saving
>>     add command failed
>>     2011/02/06 12:02:25 abnormal exit: exit code=2
>>     2011/02/06 12:02:25 Changing gid to Administrators
>>     2011/02/06 12:03:00 note: Installation Complete
>>     2011/02/06 12:03:00 Ending cygwin install
>>
>> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
>>     
> Well. At this point I'd need you to follow the indications from the
> link above, and attach the ouput from:
>
> cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck.out 
>
> to your next post.
> Some extra info I'd need to know: 
> How do you start the shell? As I said, a normal startup should read
> /etc/profile ans set/export your PATH correctly.
> By "normal" startup, I mean a way of calling the shell that tells it
> you are login into cygwin, and therefore, the startup scripts are
> called, e.g. starting mintty (which in turn executes bash --login) is such a way.
> Also, having postinstallation errors from bash and coreutils isn't
> a good thing. I'd try reinstalling both.
>
>   

In response to both David and Csaba:

Yes, there are both .bash_profile and .bashrc and both of them are same
as the defaults.

I'm attaching the cygcheck.out file.

Today when I installed postgresql I noticed that bash got upgraded to
4.1 and that there were some package postinstall failures like coreutils
and bash.


Regards,
Gerry

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