Re: what determines cygwin path?

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, Qwer Zxcv wrote:

> Qwer Zxcv wrote:
> >>> So what I'd like to know is, how is cygwin's path determined?
> >>> (Apparently not entirely by the windows path, at least not by
> >>> default.) And how do I fix it?
>
> Max Bowsher wrote:
> >> Windows + /etc/profile + any user customisation.
>
> Can you be more specific about "any user customisation"?
> I know how to fix the windows path. I know how to fix /etc/profile,
> which is currently
>
> > qwerzxcv at qwerzxcv /d/bin/cygwin/1.3.13-1/bin
> > $ less ../etc/profile
> > PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:$PATH"
>
> > USER="`id -un`"
>
> > # Set up USER's home directory
> > if [ -z "$HOME" ]; then
> >   HOME="/home/$USER"
> > fi
>
> > if [ ! -d "$HOME" ]; then
> >   mkdir -p "$HOME"
> > fi
>
> > export HOME USER
>
> > for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh ; do
> >   if [ -f $i ]; then
> >     . $i
> >   fi
> > done
>
> > export MAKE_MODE=unix
> > export PS1='\[\033]0;\w\007
> > \033[32m\]\u at \h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\]
> > $ '
>
> > cd "$HOME"
>
> thus seems not to be problematic. What I don't know is, in
>
> > PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:$PATH"
>
> * Where are
>
>   /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
>   set?

"man mount"

> * Is $PATH (at the end) coming only from the windows path, or from
>   somewhere else?

Only from Windows (it is converted to POSIX, though).

> * What other user customizations are relevant?

Anything in your home directory, any /etc/* files you've customized...
Anything you installed in /usr/local/bin...  Maybe something else.
	Igor
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