[ale] [Semi-OT] Cygwin Question

[Brian Mathis]

How are you starting the shell?  Are you using the cygwin.bat file or
going right to bash.exe directly?  Make sure whatever shell you are
using is starting bash as a login shell.

P.S. If you're not already, you probably want to use mintty for the
console window.


❧ Brian Mathis


On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Jeff Hubbs <jhubbslist at att.net> wrote:
> Dunno if any of you use Cygwin on WinXX but I'm having a problem with the
> current version (1.7.15-1) that I haven't seen before.
>
> Even though I see C:/cygwin as the value of the "rootdir" registry key, in
> the Cygwin terminal window 'echo $ROOT' gives me nothing, 'cd ~' takes me to
> C:\, I have no prompt, nothing other than what Windows seems to be setting
> in PATH, and I have no functional command history.  In C:\cygwin\etc\passwd,
> "/home/<username>" is my home directory setting as Cygwin is supposed to
> interpret it, but in the Cygwin window, 'echo $HOME' gives me C:\Documents
> and Settings\<username>, which makes a certain sense but isn't what I want.
> Any idea why ROOT isn't getting set at Cygwin terminal launch time?
>