Unfortunately, Kevin, this is not off-topic for the JDE list. From
the sound of the error message, Kevin has installed an old version of
Cygwin, probably B20.1, as instructed by the current JDE
documentation. These instructions are out of date, and I've promised
to re-write them, but I won't get to it this week.
Mike's remedy is appropriate for the current version of Cygwin, known
as the "latest net release". But in this version, /tmp is always
created, so the issue never comes up.
Kevin, when you installed Cygwin, did you get a shortcut to a bash
shell in your start menu? It might have been called "Cygnus
Solutions" (they are now Red Hat). Invoke that, and simply type
'mkdir /tmp'.
Do it that way, and /tmp is sure to be in the right place.
For those so inclined, the latest version of Cygwin is available at
<http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/>. But remember in this case the
instructions for JDE will be slightly different. I'll have more
details in about a week.
Good luck!
David
(Cygwin FAQ maintainer)
On Saturday 26 Aug 00, Mike Cannon writes:
>
> Kevin,
>
> > ... However, whenever I start bash shell, I get this anoying
> > message:
> >
> > bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!
> >
> > How do I go about setting it up so that bash sees my temp direcoty as /tmp?
>
> I assume you are running on Windows/NT and are trying to run the
> Cygwin bash. By default, the Cygwin installation considers "/" to
> be C:\Cygwin or something similar, depending on where you installed
> Cygwin.
>
> Using NT Explorer or an MS-DOS command shell, go to C:\Cygwin and
> create a new folder named "tmp". That will be "/tmp" in the eyes
> of bash and the rest of the Cygwin system. Then you should be able to
> run bash.
>
> With bash running, you can refer to the top level of the C: drive
> as "/cygdrive/c", and so-on for other drive letters. You can also
> use symbolic links (ln -s) to set up other convenient shortcuts, for
> example:
>
> cd /
> ln -s /cygdrive/c .
>
> lets you refer to the top level C: drive from bash/Cygwin as "/c/..."
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> - Mike
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