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RE: Problem installing cygwin - no PATH, mounts, /etc/passwd ...


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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