On 12/17/2013 11:27 AM, Gerry Reno wrote: > On 12/17/2013 07:44 AM, Tim Prince wrote: >> On 12/17/2013 4:32 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: >>> Greetings, Gerry Reno! >>> >>>> I just got finished installing Cygwin on another machine and this time the >>>> -c does work. So I went back and looked at >>>> the original machine. There are 2 cygwin installations on that machine in >>>> different directories. I had forgotten that >>>> Cygwin got installed a while back on this machine to support some app that >>>> needed it. So somehow having 2 different >>>> installations breaks this mintty -e capability. Does this qualify as a >>>> bug? Is Cygwin supporting 2 independent >>>> installations? >>> It do support two _independent_ installations. >>> This means, each of them have no way to find out about existence of the >>> other, >>> barring the full disk search. >>> Yours were not that independent. Likely, them both were listed in $PATH. >>> >>> >> This thread reminded me that I faced the similar problem. Being lazy and >> not figuring out how to include the path to >> cygwin1.dll when running Intel VTune profiler, I copied the .dll to the >> existing PATH, thus breaking the installation >> when next running setup. >> > I checked the PATH and I don't see any cygwin1.dll on the PATH: > > C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>which cygwin1.dll > > which: no cygwin1.dll in > (.;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\W > bem) > > > > I went and wiped BOTH of these Cygwin installations off the machine and went and installed 2 new installations in the same directory locations and now both installations work when invoking mintty -e. So it might have been that one of the installations was much older and was causing some problem with independent installations.
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