> When we running program with mintty from shortcut, mintty will > running the program in non login shell without knowing cygwin PATH. > This will make some kind of error When program try to running > external program like info run gzip or using shell escape in vim. > Is this expected behavior?
Yep. $ mintty --help Usage: ./mintty [OPTION]... [COMMAND [ARGS]...] If no command is given, the user's default shell is invoked as a non-login shell. If the command is a single minus sign, the default shell is invoked as a login shell. Otherwise the command is invoked with the given arguments. ... It's much the same for rxvt (and xterm) btw: without arguments they invoke a non-login shell, and to get a login shell you have to tell them with option -ls. > Making mintty shortcut running info with this code: > <code> > b...@semampir ~ > $ mkshortcut -D -i /usr/bin/mintty.exe -w /usr/bin -a "info" > /usr/bin/mintty.exe > <code> > > When I try to enter the node info produce error like this: > gunzip < /usr/share/info/as.info.gz.../bin/sh: gunzip: command not > found Cannot find node `Top'. > note: Making shortcut manually also produce same problem The problem is that the PATH variable isn't set up, so info can't find gunzip. Invoking a login shell does set up PATH (in /etc/profile), but that's not necessary. > This error not found when using rxvt > <code> > b...@semampir ~ > $ mkshortcut -D -i /usr/bin/cygicons-0.dll -j8 -w /usr/bin -a "-p > /usr/bin rxvt -e info" /usr/bin/run.exe > <code> The difference here is that you're adding /usr/bin to the PATH using the -p option to run.exe. It appears that invoking MinTTY through run.exe keeps its window hidden, which I guess is what run.exe is supposed to do: "run - start programs with hidden console window". I don't know why that's different for rxvt. > To avoid this trouble use bash -lc <command> so mintty will run bash > in login shell first. > > <code> > b...@semampir ~ > $ mkshortcut -D -i /usr/bin/mintty.exe -w /usr/bin -a "bash -lc > /usr/bin/info" /usr/bin/mintty.exe > <code> As mentioned above, invoking a login shell is overkill here. Just setting PATH will do: $ mkshortcut -D -i /usr/bin/mintty.exe -w /usr/bin -a "sh -c 'PATH=/bin info'" /usr/bin/mintty.exe Alternatively, you could add C:\cygwin\bin to the Windows Path variable. Andy -- 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/
