IIRC, if you check the archives, you should find that the behavior of sourcing the .bashrc file in /etc/profile was discontinued in later cygwin releases. The fact that you have it from over a year ago is probably because the cygwin install does not overwrite files that have been modified or exist previously.
HTH, Peter Randall R Schulz wrote: > Roland, > > My /etc/profile contains exactly the line you quote. It is the last line > of that file, immediately following a "cd $HOME" command. This file > bears the modification date May 10, 2001. It may be a coincidence, but > that's right when I installed Cygwin for the first time on what was then > a new, "clean" Windows 2000 Professional installation on this disk. > > Randall Schulz > Mountain View, CA USA > > > At 08:37 2002-03-26, Roland Glenn McIntosh wrote: > >> I just did a recent brand new install yesterday and I noticed that >> /etc/profile no longer contains a line like: >> >> test -f ./.bashrc && . ./.bashrc >> >> It took me a second to figure out why .bashrc wasn't getting read (I >> thought it happened automatically by the shell) until I compared it to >> an older "working" cygwin install. >> >> Is there a specific reason for that missing line in /etc/profile, or >> could it have been an oversight? I did notice that my redhat 7 >> system's /etc/profile doesn't seem to include such a line. >> -rgm > > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/