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RE: Problem installing cygwin - no PATH, mounts, /etc/passwd ...
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Dave Korn <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 11:06:50 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: RE: Problem installing cygwin - no PATH, mounts, /etc/passwd ...
- References: <SERRANOhWVz6g6m8XFl000003b3@SERRANO.CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Dave Korn wrote:
> ----Original Message----
> >From: Paul Moore
> >Sent: 05 July 2005 14:25
>
> > Hi,
> > I'm having problems installing cygwin onto my PC. This is not the
> > first time I've installed cygwin on this machine, but I wanted to do
> > a clean install, so I deleted my C:\Cygwin directory, removed the
> > icons, and deleted the registry entries, as suggested in the FAQ.
>
> --------------------------------snip--------------------------------
> Found: C:\Cygwin\bin\cp.exe
> Found: C:\Utils\GnuWin32\bin\cp.exe
> Warning: C:\Cygwin\bin\cp.exe hides C:\Utils\GnuWin32\bin\cp.exe
[snip more of the same]
> Not Found: sh
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> --------------------------------snip--------------------------------
>
> Shoulda removed the ages-old GnuWin32 install as well, I reckon! All
> those incorrect versions of command line utilities will have made a
> hideous botch of running the postinstall scripts, and will mess up the
> /etc/profile and ~/.bashrc and other startup scripts, and will be
> interfering with pretty much everything you do when you try to use the
> cygwin install...
I don't see why it should. Setup does prepend the Cygwin /bin and
/usr/bin directories to the PATH (see init_run_script in script.cc), so
the Cygwin versions should be picked up by the postinstall scripts.
I'd be much more concerned about the "Not found: sh" line above (marked
with '!'s). Did the OP unselect "ash" when installing Cygwin? Since he
did "Install from Local Directory", was the ash tarball corrupted or
missing?
Igor
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