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Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2011 19:36:23 -0500
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On 02/06/2011 07:33 PM, Gerry Reno wrote:
> On 02/06/2011 06:23 PM, David Sastre wrote:
>   
>> On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 03:43:42PM -0500, Gerry Reno wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> On 02/06/2011 02:16 PM, David Sastre wrote:
>>>     
>>>       
>>>> On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 01:33:37PM -0500, Gerry Reno wrote:
>>>>   
>>>>       
>>>>         
>>>>> What is the proper method to set the PATH variable on a system-wide
>>>>> basis in Cygwin?
>>>>>     
>>>>>         
>>>>>           
>>>> First off, I'm curious about how do you start the bash shell. I ask
>>>> because you don't seem to have PS1 set correctly, and that should be
>>>> automated by startup-scripts. 
>>>>       
>>>>         
>>> I didn't change anything.  This is rather new installation of Cygwin.
>>>
>>> I have seen some postinstall script failures on a few packages but would
>>> these be modifying the system-wide PATH variable?
>>>
>>> I have not changed anything about PATH anywhere.
>>>
>>>     
>>>       
>>>> The PATH variable in cygwin is exported from your /etc/profile
>>>> file, which contains a line that sets cygwin's path with higher
>>>> precedence over the PATH inherited from windows.
>>>>       
>>>>         
>>> Yep, I see it.  So why isn't it working?
>>>
>>>     
>>>       
>>>>> Is there some guiding document about setting PATH system-wide to better
>>>>> support scripts from Linux?
>>>>>         
>>>>>           
>>>>  
>>>> Yes. The info you need is in the bash manpage, INVOCATION section.
>>>>       
>>>>         
>>> bash-4.1$ man bash
>>> (END)
>>>
>>> No man pages.
>>> How do you get the man page generated?
>>> And here's the tail end of /var/log/setup.log.full:
>>>
>>>     2011/02/06 12:01:40 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc
>>>     --noprofile /etc/post
>>>     install/coreutils.sh
>>>     2011/02/06 12:01:41 abnormal exit: exit code=128
>>>     2011/02/06 12:01:41 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc
>>>     --noprofile /etc/post
>>>     install/bash.sh
>>>     2011/02/06 12:01:41 abnormal exit: exit code=128
>>>     2011/02/06 12:01:41 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc
>>>     --noprofile /etc/post
>>>     install/update-info-dir.sh
>>>     2011/02/06 12:02:24 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc
>>>     --noprofile /etc/post
>>>     install/libglade2.0.sh
>>>     could not open /etc/xml/catalog for saving
>>>     add command failed
>>>     2011/02/06 12:02:25 abnormal exit: exit code=2
>>>     2011/02/06 12:02:25 Changing gid to Administrators
>>>     2011/02/06 12:03:00 note: Installation Complete
>>>     2011/02/06 12:03:00 Ending cygwin install
>>>
>>> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
>>>     
>>>       
>> Well. At this point I'd need you to follow the indications from the
>> link above, and attach the ouput from:
>>
>> cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck.out 
>>
>> to your next post.
>> Some extra info I'd need to know: 
>> How do you start the shell? As I said, a normal startup should read
>> /etc/profile ans set/export your PATH correctly.
>> By "normal" startup, I mean a way of calling the shell that tells it
>> you are login into cygwin, and therefore, the startup scripts are
>> called, e.g. starting mintty (which in turn executes bash --login) is such a way.
>> Also, having postinstallation errors from bash and coreutils isn't
>> a good thing. I'd try reinstalling both.
>>
>>   
>>     
> In response to both David and Csaba:
>
> Yes, there are both .bash_profile and .bashrc and both of them are same
> as the defaults.
>
> I'm attaching the cygcheck.out file.
>
> Today when I installed postgresql I noticed that bash got upgraded to
> 4.1 and that there were some package postinstall failures like coreutils
> and bash.
>
>
> Regards,
> Gerry
>
>   
>

You'll notice that I corrected the PATH as shown in cygcheck.out.

I did this by editing /etc/bash.bashrc and setting the PATH variable.


Regards,
Gerry


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