RE: upgrade to 1.7 experience ; Cygwin.bat doesn't find home directory

2009-12-24 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Just a note which I hope is related. vim was having problems with one of its files in ~. In Windows Explorer I copied the entire /home folder (d:\path\home) from 1.5 to c:\cygwin\home, thereby overwriting it. Then I used Explorer again to remove any read-only attributes. That seemed to solve

Re: upgrade to 1.7 experience ; Cygwin.bat doesn't find home directory

2009-12-24 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 12/24/2009 02:56 AM, Myron Flickner wrote: It appears that bash not finding the home directory is caused by a missing /etc/profile. I copied over this file from a 1.5 system and now bash finds my profile and .bashrc. Is this a bug or by design ? Neither. See Chris' email here:

Re: upgrade to 1.7 experience ; Cygwin.bat doesn't find home directory

2009-12-23 Thread Myron Flickner
It appears that bash not finding the home directory is caused by a missing /etc/profile. I copied over this file from a 1.5 system and now bash finds my profile and .bashrc. Is this a bug or by design ? imaging away / flick - Original Message Sorry for the crappy formatting

Re: upgrade to 1.7 experience ; Cygwin.bat doesn't find home directory

2009-12-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 09:45:15PM -0800, Myron Flickner wrote: >I just upgraded my first XP Pro machine from 1.5 to 1.7 - a couple of minor >issues > >Part of the post-install failed with many popup dialogs - "The procedure >entry point __ctype_ptr__ could not be located in the dynamic link lib