setup.exe: How to install sources from the command line?

Al oss.elmar@googlemail.com
Mon Sep 27 16:02:00 GMT 2010


For future readers of this thread.

>>> When I open the shell for the first time, the user directory is
>>> created. Is there a trigger to reach this without manually opening a
>>> login shell?
>>
>> The check is in '/etc/profile'.  It's just checking if "$HOME" exists.

This does the trick from a batch script:

  P:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c "source /etc/profile"

Al

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