[ale] [Semi-OT] Cygwin Question

[Jeff Hubbs]

Thanks, Brian.  I'm starting it using the Desktop icon that setup.exe 
makes.  It turns out that a large part of the problem is that there's 
also an installation of MKS Toolkit (which provides bash, Korn, and C 
shells) on the same machine and it looks as though it and Cygwin 
interfere in such a way that it's really the MKS Toolkit binaries that 
Cygwin is using.  I may forgo using Cygwin i.l.o. MKS just to not have 
to reverse-engineer a way for the two apps to coexist.

On 5/17/12 2:30 PM, Brian Mathis wrote:
> How are you starting the shell?  Are you using the cygwin.bat file or
> going right to bash.exe directly?  Make sure whatever shell you are
> using is starting bash as a login shell.
>
> P.S. If you're not already, you probably want to use mintty for the
> console window.
>
>
> ❧ Brian Mathis
>
>
> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Jeff Hubbs<jhubbslist at att.net>  wrote:
>> Dunno if any of you use Cygwin on WinXX but I'm having a problem with the
>> current version (1.7.15-1) that I haven't seen before.
>>
>> Even though I see C:/cygwin as the value of the "rootdir" registry key, in
>> the Cygwin terminal window 'echo $ROOT' gives me nothing, 'cd ~' takes me to
>> C:\, I have no prompt, nothing other than what Windows seems to be setting
>> in PATH, and I have no functional command history.  In C:\cygwin\etc\passwd,
>> "/home/<username>" is my home directory setting as Cygwin is supposed to
>> interpret it, but in the Cygwin window, 'echo $HOME' gives me C:\Documents
>> and Settings\<username>, which makes a certain sense but isn't what I want.
>> Any idea why ROOT isn't getting set at Cygwin terminal launch time?
>>
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