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Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2011 19:55:16 -0500
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On 02/06/2011 07:36 PM, Gerry Reno wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>   

BTW,  I start the Cygwin Bash shell from the desktop icon.

Regards,
Gerry




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