On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 06:12:56PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 4/7/2014 5:09 PM, Colin wrote: > > <snip> > > >>Indeed. And if your path under bash doesn't include /usr/bin, then I'll > >>wager your postinstall scripts didn't run or at least > >completely/correctly. > >>See /etc/postinstall for the scripts. If you aren't able to figure out > >>what didn't run properly, you can either try rerunning everything > >manually > >>and looking for faults (if any) or just rerun setup.exe and hope that it > >>has better luck with the scripts the second time around. > >> > > > >Spot on, Larry. $PATH is empty. > >I 'Reinstall'ed Cygwin, but the result is the same. I did take note of > >setup complaining that there is a more recent version available according > >to the ini file (2.774 vs 2.674) but I'm picking that isn't the problem. > > I do find it interesting that the Cygwin Time Machine wouldn't have the > setup version and the archive in sync. You'd have to check with that site > to understand why you're seeing that. > > >/etc/postinstall contains the following "done" script files: > >base-files-mketc.sh.done > >base-files-profile.sh.done > >bash.sh.done > >coreutils.sh.done > >cygwin-doc.sh.done > >man.sh.done > >passwd-grp.sh.done > >terminfo.sh.done > >terminfo0.sh.done > >update-info-dir.sh.done > > > >Is there something missing from that list? What's my next step? I haven't > >yet tried running them manually, that will have to wait until tonight (gmt > >+ 12). > > That list seems a bit limited to me, unless you specifically asked for just > those packages to install. Allowing setup to install a default installation > should get you several dozen packages I believe, in 1.5 days. So I'd say > start there and check that. If that doesn't help, check with the Cygwin > Time Machine site for help. > I have an older install at work, and thought that behaviour was normal (empty $PATH). I just set the PATH in .bashrc in the initial directory - then everything "just worked".
Cheers ... Duncan. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
