On 2013-07-08 13:21-0400 Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
I believe you have drawn the opposite conclusion from what I was trying to convey. It is best to _not_ have HOME set in your Windows environment prior to running 'setup.exe'. If you do have it set, 'setup.exe' will use that directory as your home rather than the default '/home/<username>'.
Your original message (especially the last part) was pretty clear, but I just reversed the meaning. Sorry. I actually ran setup.exe from a bash/wine environment, and for that the HOME environment variable (as printed out by printenv |grep HOME ) was not set. So there is likely some other reason (which may or may not be related to a Wine bug) that I got the same symptoms as the OP. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ -- 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