fish PATH problem
Andrew Schulman
schulman.andrew@epa.gov
Thu Oct 9 16:44:00 GMT 2014
> Greetings, Andrew Schulman!
>
> >> Andrew: appreciated if you can confirm whether simply invoking as a
> >> login shell works for you.
>
> > It sort of works. When I change my shell to /usr/bin/fish in /etc/passwd
> > and run
>
> > C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe -
>
> > I don't get any error messages, as I first reported. But the environment
> > isn't set up correctly. The main problem seems to be that although I'm
> > running 64-bit cygwin, the directory for 32-bit cygwin is mounted as the
> > root filesystem:
>
> > ~> cygpath -w /
> > C:\cygwin
>
> > By comparison when I start fish from bash, I get:
>
> > aschulma@LC77E1AASCHULMA ~> cygpath -w /
> > C:\cygwin64
>
> > This is a pretty serious problem. Any thoughts on why it happens?
>
> Initial %PATH% problem?
Andrey, good catch. My system %PATH% did indeed include C:\cygwin\bin.
So I removed that, and restarted fish. Good news: the system mount points
are right again - they point into C:\Cygwin64, not C:\Cygwin. That's a
relief!
Bad news: the PATH problem is back. When I run
C:\cygwin64\bin\fish.exe -l
I get the same error messages as before on startup, and PATH doesn't
include /bin /usr/bin /sbin /usr/sbin.
How are /bin /usr/bin etc. normally added to the PATH? I don't see any
logic to do it in /usr/share/fish/config.fish.
Andrew
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