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FW: Cannot install cygwin on Windows Xp


On 13 April 2007 16:01, Dave Korn wrote:

> On 13 April 2007 15:53, Guillaume Ricaud wrote:
> 
>> Thanks for your reply
>> 
>> /etc/setup/last-action says :
>> 
>> Download,Install
>> 
>> /var/log/setup.log.full says :
>> 
>> 2007/04/13 16:10:43 running: D:\AVL\BASH\v2.05-6\bin\\bash.exe -c
> 
>   ARRGH!  You have some bogus stuff in your PATH variable!  That's not
> cygwin's bash, that's some foreign bash! 

  Setup.exe probably wants to cut down the %PATH% settings when it invokes
external executables; am I wrong in thinking there's no need at all to be
running anything from outside the newly-installed cygwin tree (and the basic
windows system dirs)?

    cheers,
      DaveK
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