X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <462B85DE.7040702@kleckner.net> Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 08:57:18 -0700 From: Jim Kleckner User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Setup.exe Problems on Vista References: <462B002F.A1E27066@dessent.net> In-Reply-To: <462B002F.A1E27066@dessent.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Brian Dessent wrote: > "Michael D. Adams" wrote: >> he workaround for this problem that I have found is to set the >> *Windows* path to include C:\cygwin\bin before running setup.exe. So >> for example this sequence works: >> >> set PATH=C:\cygwin\bin;%PATH% >> setup.exe >> >> Then /bin/sh is actually created, the prompt is the usual Cygwin settings, etc. >> Of course the proper solution would be to find and fix the root cause. >> Is this a known bug? Is there any other info I can provide to help >> find the root cause? (I'm suspicious that Vista might not allow the >> program to set PATH.) >> > > That would be pretty brain dead if Vista did not allow programs to > modify the PATH. That would cause about a million failures in Cygwin > and various programs. > FYI, adding c:\cygwin\bin at the end of the windows global environment PATH variable fixed an annoying issue that "cystart --explore ." wouldn't work for me on Vista (64bit). It was very minor but I suspect this symptom and workaround suggest something deeper. Jim -- 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/