On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Alexpux <alex...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 14 нояб. 2013 г., в 0:48, Jon <jon.for...@gmail.com> написал(а):
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Alexpux <alex...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> 14 нояб. 2013 г., в 0:31, Jon <jon.for...@gmail.com> написал(а):
>>
>> I'm an old cygwin user who went astray years ago and would like to
>> confirm my MSYS2 setup.
>>
>> Here's what I'm doing to have a sandboxed style setup that isolates my
>> normal windows setup. For example, I don't want MSYS2's default
>> /etc/profile to think HOME is C:\Users\Jon. I want it to think HOME is
>> %MSYS_INSTALL_DIR%/home/Jon and use/modify files in that location.
>>
>> 1) Create a desktop shortcut with
>>
>> C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /e:on /v:on /k C:\Apps\msys32\msys2_shell.bat
>>
>>
>> 2) Modify MSYS2's msys2_shell.bat to include
>>
>> set HOME=%~dp0home\Jon
>>
>>
>> You don’t need it.
>>
>>
>>
>> 3) Place the mingw-w64 official toolchain in C:\Apps\DevTools\mingw
>> (actually it's a windows directory symlink to
>> C:\Apps\DevTools\toolchains\mingwbuilds-64-4.8.2)
>>
>>
>> 4) Update /etc/fstab to include
>>
>> C:/Apps/DevTools/mingw /usr/local/mingw
>>
>>
>> It seems to be OK, but there's one oddity I've found so far. When I use
>> the shortcut, I'm dumped in `~` which pwd's to /usr/home/Jon. When I `cd ~`
>> I'm told I'm in /home/Jon and pwd shows the same thing. Also, my
>> /etc/passwd entry shows /home/Jon.
>>
>> I suspect this is just cygwin's aliasing magic making things nicer for
>> me. But I want to check that my HOME update in msys2_shell.bat should be OK.
>>
>>
>> You have HOME=/home/user by default without needed any changes.
>>
>> *$ echo $HOME*
>> */home/alexey*
>>
>>
>>
> Not in my case, and the default hammers my existing
> %HOMEPATH%%HOMEDIR%/.bash_history.
>
> Perhaps I have something else clobbering the setup?
>
> Jon@Black ~
> $ pwd
> /c/Users/Jon
>
> Jon@Black ~
> $ cd $HOME
>
> Jon@Black ~
> $ pwd
> /c/Users/Jon
>
> Jon@Black ~
> $ echo $HOME
> /c/Users/Jon
>
> Jon@Black ~
> $ cd ~
>
> Jon@Black /home/Jon
> $ pwd
> /home/Jon
>
>
>
>
Probably you have %HOME% variable in system environment.
>
>
Facepalm. Thought I checked that.
C:\>set H
HOME=C:\Users\Jon
HOMEDRIVE=C:
HOMEPATH=\Users\Jon
Sorry for the noise Alexey :(
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