Parish wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >> <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#MKGROUP> >> <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#MKPASSWD> > > I guess that you are saying that make uses /etc/passwd when setting > SHELL?
No, it doesn't. I think this was suggested to you because it is a common problem. > I checked on my system and I do have /etc/passwd and /etc/group so I > guess I must have run them (it's along time since I installed cygwin). Setup does this automatically at initial install. When users/groups are added/deleted/changed in Windows, they need to be regenerated though. > However, I did try renamimg them, starting a new cygwin shell and > running make, and SHELL was still set to /bin/sh.exe Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
