Re: Making zsh the default

[Dan Nelson]

Virginia Mann wrote:

Larry Hall kindly advised:

Assuming you start bash now by clicking on the icon for cygwin.bat, 
simply 
edit that file, and replace "bash" with "zsh".  You'll need to review the 
man page for zsh to see what are the appropriate flags to pass to get a 
login shell.  I don't have zsh installed otherwise I might give you a 
clue. ;-)

Are you kidding? That was the best clue you could have given! 
My mental model was wrong. I was looking inside the system for 
something that was in a "DOS" batch file.

Now all that's needed is a way to let us not install bash...  Why does 
setup.exe insist on selecting the bash package?  I have to remember to 
cycle it back to "Skip" every time.

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Re: Making zsh the default

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Jan 29), Igor Pechtchanski said:
> On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Dan Nelson wrote:
> > Now all that's needed is a way to let us not install bash...  Why
> > does setup.exe insist on selecting the bash package?  I have to
> > remember to cycle it back to "Skip" every time.
> 
> Not a very good idea.  While cygwin itself does not depend on bash,
> some other applications (notably, sh-utils) do depend on it.  Some
> postinstall/preremove scripts might also require bash.  That's why
> you have to explicitly set it to "Skip" - it's selected because of a
> dependence.  If you choose to violate this dependence, you should be
> aware of the consequences.

sh-utils depends on bash for the nohup command, which runs just fine
with /sib/sh with the following change to the last line in the script
(copied from debian's nohup, which uses /bin/sh):

-exec -- "$@"
+exec "$@"

I would imagine most other bash dependencies are just like this;  bash
run as /bin/sh still allows bash syntax, and many Linux /bin/sh scripts
are really bash-specific.  It's easier to simply change the bang path
to /bin/bash and add a dependency than it is to fix the script.

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