On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 01:34:21PM -0700, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote: >On 6/7/2010 1:15 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> Rather than express amazement that I raised the issue why not just prove >> that this doesn't mean anything by simplifying your path and trying >> again? > >I am not expressing amazement, I was asking a simple question, if one >can't install windows perl if they have cygwin also. > >btw, I did NOT touch the $PATH. This is how it is "out of the box".
So it is. I'm pretty dense for never noticing this after all of these years. >cygwin by default post-append windows PATH to "/usr/bin:/bin:". > >In my $HOME/.barc I only add /usr/loca/bin to PATH > > >>I would try just doing something like: >> >> c:\>set >> PATH=c:\cygwin\bin;c:\windows;c:\windows\system32;c:\windows\system32\Wbem >> bash$ ... >> > >Ok, I just did, and those warnings are still there: > >$ uname -a >CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 me-PC 1.7.5(0.225/5/3) 2010-04-12 19:07 i686 Cygwin > >$ echo $PATH >/usr/bin:/cygdrive/c/Windows/system32:/cygdrive/c/Windows:/cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/Wbem > >$ cygcheck -s -v -r> cygcheck.out >/usr/bin/cygrunsrv: warning: OpenService failed for 'DcomLaunch': Win32 >error 5 >Access is denied. >/usr/bin/cygrunsrv: warning: OpenService failed for 'pla': Win32 error 5 >Access is denied. >/usr/bin/cygrunsrv: warning: OpenService failed for 'QWAVE': Win32 error 5 >Access is denied. >/usr/bin/cygrunsrv: warning: OpenService failed for 'RpcEptMapper': >Win32 error 5 >Access is denied. >/usr/bin/cygrunsrv: warning: OpenService failed for 'RpcSs': Win32 error 5 >Access is denied. >$ As Larry suggests, I wasn't referring to the cygcheck warnings. I was referring to your bug report. -- 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