On Friday 20 Oct 00, Ignasi Palou-Rivera writes:
> The default /etc/profile for the 1.1.4 version of CygWin chokes when
> HOME is defined including blanks. The solution is to quote the
> reference to $HOME in line 14:
> 
> IPALOU$ diff profile profile.orig
> 14c14
> < if [ ! -d "$HOME" ]; then
> ---
> > if [ ! -d $HOME ]; then
> 
> I'm running under Win2000, but I'm sure that's irrelevant.

A word of advice:

Even though you've repaired this script, you may find that other
things will break because of whitespace in $HOME.  You might be better
off in the long run, as far as Cygwin is concerned, if you choose a
$HOME that does not include whitespace characters.

Regards,
David


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