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Re: default PATH
- From: ericblake at comcast dot net (Eric Blake)
- To: jt <jt at udev dot org>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 15:12:09 +0000
- Subject: Re: default PATH
> I upgrade to 1.5.19-4 and my default PATH has changed:
>
> PATH is "inherited" from my WinXP environment as usual but it is not
> prepend with "/bin" like before the upgrade, and is now appended with
> ".".
> I cannot find where this happen (my .bashrc is unchanged).
Try opening a cmd.com window in c:\cygwin\bin (or whatever
it is named), then running 'bash --login -xv' to see every command
executed by bash during startup. Maybe that will help you
pinpoint the culprit.
>
> Also, when I start cygwin (shell in rxvt), it throws me in "/usr/bin"
> (which is a mount of "/bin") instead of my usual "~/".
Sounds like it might be a problem with $HOME, such that
bash does not know where to find your ~/.bashrc.
>
> I can fix all this by hand in my .bashrc but I want to have a clean
> fix (avoid cygwin to do the bad job at the first place).
> Can someone tell me where to look at?
>
> Note: the upgrade also updated coreutils, readline and other minor stuff.
Perhaps you also upgraded base-files, and maybe something
in there was the culprit?
Hint: following these directions is a great help to debugging:
> Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
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Eric Blake
volunteer cygwin bash maintainer
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