On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 1:05 AM, Mark Harig<idirect...@aim.com> wrote: > From the bash manual (in emacs: M-: (info "(bash) Bash Startup Files")): > > "When an interactive shell that is not a login shell is started, Bash > reads and executes commands from `~/.bashrc', if that file exists. > This may be inhibited by using the `--norc' option." > > So, in the typical case, when you start bash with '-i', it sources the > following files: > /etc/profile # which typically contains PATH initialization > ~/.bash_profile # or some other "login" file, such as ~/.profile > ~/.bash_profile will usually source ~/.bashrc (the non-login code) > > To avoid having these files read, start bash with '--noprofile' (if you wish > to avoid reading /etc/profile and ~/.bash_profile) and '--norc' (if you wish > to avoid reading ~/.bashrc. Or, simply edit /etc/profile and ~/.bashrc, > where PATH is typically set to get PATH to have the ordering that you > want.
Thanks Mark. I might need this information, I am not sure at the moment, but I am trying to do avoid changing anything in this file. I am not the user so to say. What I am trying to do is to make the setup for the command cygwin-shell in the Emacs+EmacsW32 distro as automatic as possible. The user should not have to care. It should just work. (This is native Emacs, compiled for windows, not for cygwin.) So therefor I check the cygwin installation from the windows registry and try to add the path for cygwin as I told before. The information I got here is that the result from what I do should work as expected. There is now only one flaw and that is that cygwin will not show the expected path in $PATH. This could be a source of great confusion and waste a lot of time for a user hunting a difficult error so it would be good if it could be fixed. -- 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/
