I installed cygwin using the defaults. By that I mean I accepted the directory of C:\Cygwin, the default download directory, and selected no additional packages.
The installation program seemed to complete with no exceptions. However when I went to run the program it said it couldn't find the Bash program. I looked at the Cygwin.bat file and determined that there was no C:\Cygwin\bin\ directory. After some investigation, I found the bin\ and terminfo\ directories under C:\download\PDFMerge\. PDFMerge is a program that, as far as I know, has no relationship to Cygwin. I move the bin\ and terminfo\ directories under C:\Cygwin\ and then the bash shell will start, but it could find any programs - not even 'ls'. I copied the directory back under the PDFMerge folder and everything started working finally. Reinstalling Cygwin produces the same result. I added some packaged (i.e. the X Windows stuff) and it placed them in the bin\ directory which is under the PDFMerge tree. 1) Where did the installation program get the PDFMerge directory path in the first place? I have looked in the registry, grep'ed through all the files on the hard drive, and look at the user's environment variables and I haven't discovered where it came from. 2) Where is the Cygwin bash program getting the bin directory information and how can I change it to come to use the C:\Cygwin\bin\ and terminfo\ directories? Thanks for your help. -Alan Ramsey __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
