On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 03:20:38PM -0600, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: >I had been running 1.7 in my \cygwin-1.7 directory. > >I decided to clean up this morning and created a \cygwin directory >using setup-1.7.exe to re-load all my stuff (gcc, emacs, X server, >etc.). I renamed the old 1.7 directory to cygwin-1.7.old so it >wouldn't be "in the way".
Have you downloaded a new version of setup-1.7.exe recently? There was a bug (that I introduced) in this version which set HOME to /tmp during installation. I don't know if this version was ever released but, if it was, it may have caused this problem. cgf -- 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
