Jerry DeLisle wrote: > Maybe I need a different combination of binutils, libreadline, and bash.
Binutils can't possibly be causing shell startup failures, it's not remotely involved(*). It's going to be between libreadline and bash. cheers, DaveK -- (*) - Unless you have something very unusual in your startup scripts, but that doesn't seem likely... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple