Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Ren=E9_Berber?= Subject: Re: /etc/profile always does a "cd $HOME" Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 01:21:31 -0500 Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes 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? Why not use: c:\cygwin\bin\make all the necessary paths and variables can be defined in the Makefile. -- René Berber -- 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/