Igor, David, At 21:15 2003-01-25, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
David,Wow, you've really done your homework :-D
I was thinking the same thing. Would that everyone was so diligent, eh?
The only reason the %USERPROFILE% portion is there in $HOME is because in the Windows environment variable settings, the value of HOME includes %USERPROFILE% but USERPROFILE is not itself set, so Windows doesn't expand the nested variable reference, it just leaves there in its literal form.Apparently, Dia has reset your HOME environment variable. The default /etc/profile sets HOME only if it's not set before, and since Cygwin processes inherit the Windows environment, well... In any case, uninstallers rarely change back the environment variables that they munge. Thus, you could a) go to Start->Settings->Control Panels->System and delete your HOME environment variable (no doubt breaking Dia if it's still installed), or b) edit your /etc/profile and comment out the line containing 'if [ -z "$HOME" ]; then' and the corresponding 'fi'. If you're feeling unsure about changing /etc/profile, you could instead change that conditional to 'if [ -z "$HOME" -o "$HOME" = "/usr/bin/%USERPROFILE%"]; then', just to ignore the change Dia made.
So you can set the HOME definitely / absolutely or supply a value for USERPROFILE so the expansion of HOME passed to newly created processes will include it. Somehow, though, I doubt you'd want your HOME directory to be in "/usr/bin/..."
Randall Schulz
Igor
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