Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <42917BA1.2010601@familiehaase.de> Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 08:43:45 +0200 From: "Gerrit P. Haase" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Sven_K=F6hler?= CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: /etc/profile always does a "cd $HOME" References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed X-IsSubscribed: yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id j4N6hvmU031828 Sven Köhler wrote: >>i'd like to use cygwin from a normal windows-app. The problem is, that i >>need a login-shell, so that all environment-vars are properly set. The >>problem: bash -li always changes the current workdir! > > > So here's what i'd like to do. Perhaps you could help me with that: > > I'm trying to execute make from a regular windows app. imagine if > batch-file if it helps. So my batch-file would look like that > > c:\cygwin\bin\bash -lc "make" > > If i use bash without the "-l", the PATH variable contains too few > entries, and make isn't found. Besides changed the PATH-variable > manually, which possibility is there to execute a command within a fully > functional cygwin environment? Just add x:/cygwin/bin to the global PATH and call make directly? Gerrit -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/