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Subject:	Re: [1.7] HOME directory is always /tmp
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On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 03:20:38PM -0600, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
>I had been running 1.7 in my \cygwin-1.7 directory.
>
>I decided to clean up this morning and created a \cygwin directory
>using setup-1.7.exe to re-load all my stuff (gcc, emacs, X server,
>etc.).  I renamed the old 1.7 directory to cygwin-1.7.old so it
>wouldn't be "in the way".

Have you downloaded a new version of setup-1.7.exe recently?  There was
a bug (that I introduced) in this version which set HOME to /tmp during
installation.  I don't know if this version was ever released but, if
it was, it may have caused this problem.

cgf

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