X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:40:21 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [1.7] HOME directory is always /tmp Message-ID: <20090629214020.GA26131@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <806a89db0906291420r3e53e4ecj3cae2de045337c26@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <806a89db0906291420r3e53e4ecj3cae2de045337c26@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 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 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple