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Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 22:30:01 +0400
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT yandex DOT ru>
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Greetings, Wayne Johnson!

> I am upgrading some of our scripts to use the latest version of Cygwin bash
> et. al. and run into an interesting problem that I'm having trouble
> explaining.  


> I have put bash, pwd, etc. into a directory called support_tools, and have a
> batch file that does a cd to the support_tools directory and then runs bash
> in order to capture some information.   

> In the old version of bash (3.2.49(22)) when we run bash, pwd returns the
> proper cygwinified path, like C:\Program Files
> (x86)\install_dir\support_tools.  

> Under the new bash (4.1.10(4)), when I do pwd I get /support_tools.

> How does bash (or in this case probably one of the cygwin libraries)
> determine the current directory when you start it up?

cygwin expect base files to be located in ../bin relative to the Cygwin1.dll
location, as far as I know.
I suggest you place Cygwin binaries into /support_tools/bin and supply
/support_tools/etc/fstab with desirable mount options.


--
WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon AT yandex DOT ru) 30.09.2013, <22:27>

Sorry for my terrible english...