Bash initialization w/cygwin-1.7 on NT4

[Jerry DeLisle]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 10:55:40AM -0700, Jerry DeLisle wrote:
>> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> --- snip ---
>>>> I will try the manual process you suggested after I figure out how to get the 
>>>> snapshot and when it is available.
>> Bare in mind that I am using the broken environment to do this.
> 
> The fact that I could duplicate the problem means that I'm in the same
> state as you.
> 
>> I managed to extract the snapshot and replace the cygwin1.dll while not
>> running any cygwin apps.  Restarting a shell seems to function as
>> before, uninitialized.
>>
>> I then go to /etc/postinstall to find the scripts.  They are all
>> suffixed with .done.  Are these the scripts I should attempt to run?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> You need to do something like:
> 
> c:
> cd \cygwin\etc
> for %f in (*.done) do sh ./%f
> 
OK, I have it fixed as follows:

1. Do clean install of cygwin-1.7 selecting bash one revision back.

2. Replace cygwin1.dll with the snapshot of today.

3. Start cygwin shell from desktop icon.

4. cd /etc/postinstall

5. PATH=/bin

6. for filename in ./*.done; do /bin/sh $filename; done;

7. exit

8. restart cygwin shell from desktop icon, all appears well.

Thanks Christopher and Dave for your help.

Best regards,

Jerry

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