Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/04/18/13:42:55
On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Mateusz oskot wrote:
> I'm Mateusz, a new user of Cygwin.
> [snip]
> I tested this note and I noticed that .bashrc is not loaded when
> launching cygwin.bat or bash --login -i command.
Well, no, it isn't. However, ~/.bash_profile is, and it should have been
added by the default installation script. And the default ~/.bash_profile
reads ~/.bashrc, so you get the same functionality whether you are in a
login shell or not.
The only reason the default scripts won't create a ~/.bash_profile is if
one was already present in your home directory. If so, you may want to
look at /etc/skel/.bash_profile and merge its content with whatever custom
~/.bash_profile you have.
> When I renamed this file to ~/.profile then it loads properly and all
> customizations are loaded.
Yes, but now subshells (which are not login shells) will not have these
customizations.
> I suppose there were some change between Cygwin releases but the FAQ has
> not been updated.
No, there was no related change in Cygwin.
> BTW, should I send output from cygcheck -s -v -r command?
Yes, it's always a good idea when reporting problems with your
installation.
Igor
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