RE: How to prepend a directory to the PATH to accommodate CVSNT?
I looked in c:\Cygwin\home\Administrator and could not find a .profile file using emacs. There was a .bash_profile file. Should I create a .profile file? Thanks, Siegfried -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 5:38 PM To: Siegfried Heintze Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: How to prepend a directory to the PATH to accommodate CVSNT? On 5 Oct, Siegfried Heintze wrote: Anyway, in your case it should be as simple as this: PATH=/cygdrive/c/Program Files/cvsnt/bin:$PATH Where do I put this statement? .bashrc? You could, but why not put it in ~/.profile so it's read just once by the login shell, and any child shells then have it in the environment, instead of having to do it themselves? FRom memory, bash will look for ~/.bash_login, ~/.profile, ~/.login, (not sure if it's in that order), and use the first one it finds. But it won't do this if $HOME was created by Cygwin mkdir instead of by Windows Explorer, due to some mysterious access permissions problem. BTW, I use .profile because it's usable regardless of what (Bourne-like) shell you use. luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: How to prepend a directory to the PATH to accommodate CVSNT?
Just Do It! On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 11:18:31 -0600, Siegfried Heintze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I looked in c:\Cygwin\home\Administrator and could not find a .profile file using emacs. There was a .bash_profile file. Should I create a .profile file? Thanks, Siegfried -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 5:38 PM To: Siegfried Heintze Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: How to prepend a directory to the PATH to accommodate CVSNT? On 5 Oct, Siegfried Heintze wrote: Anyway, in your case it should be as simple as this: PATH=/cygdrive/c/Program Files/cvsnt/bin:$PATH Where do I put this statement? .bashrc? You could, but why not put it in ~/.profile so it's read just once by the login shell, and any child shells then have it in the environment, instead of having to do it themselves? FRom memory, bash will look for ~/.bash_login, ~/.profile, ~/.login, (not sure if it's in that order), and use the first one it finds. But it won't do this if $HOME was created by Cygwin mkdir instead of by Windows Explorer, due to some mysterious access permissions problem. BTW, I use .profile because it's usable regardless of what (Bourne-like) shell you use. luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
RE: How to prepend a directory to the PATH to accommodate CVSNT?
On 6 Oct, Siegfried Heintze wrote: I looked in c:\Cygwin\home\Administrator and could not find a .profile file using emacs. There was a .bash_profile file. Should I create a .profile file? Thanks, Siegfried It's not necessary, unless you might also run other Bourne shells. If you are, then it makes sense to use .profile instead of ..bash_profile (just don't use any bash extensions there). BTW, if you are appearing as Administrator, and you're actually logging into a domain, it probably means you need to run mkpasswd -d and add the output to /etc/passwd (mkpasswd -d /etc/passwd). luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: How to prepend a directory to the PATH to accommodate CVSNT?
Hi, Siegfried: In my opinion, I don't think it a good idea to use native Windows program in cygwin. Yes, you can remove your cygwin version of cvs.exe in /usr/bin and create a symbolic link there, pointing to /cygdrive/.../cvsnt/bin/cvs.exe. And it in fact will run instead of cygwin version. But the native Windows program will not recognize the strange path offered by cygwin's shell. If you are always using relative path, I think the native Windows program will work as well. Or you can write a simple wrapper to translate the cygwin path into native Windows path. Who knows? Who cares? Good luck! Edward L. Fox 2004-10-05 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 23:12:05 -0600, Siegfried Heintze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I notice that Cygwin manipulates the path by prepending /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin: to the windows PATH environment variable. This is a problem for me because I'm using CVSNT and I need my cvs client to be /cygdrive/c/Program Files/cvsnt/bin which it never sees because it finds cvs.exe in /usr/bin instead and this is not the cvsnt client! How do I prepend /cygdrive/c/Program Files/cvsnt/bin to the path? Thanks Siegfried -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: How to prepend a directory to the PATH to accommodate CVSNT?
On 4 Oct, Siegfried Heintze wrote: I notice that Cygwin manipulates the path by prepending /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin: to the windows PATH environment variable. This is a problem for me because I'm using CVSNT and I need my cvs client to be /cygdrive/c/Program Files/cvsnt/bin which it never sees because it finds cvs.exe in /usr/bin instead and this is not the cvsnt client! How do I prepend /cygdrive/c/Program Files/cvsnt/bin to the path? We've been doing this for years, since Cygwin's cvs gives us messages of the form $ /usr/bin/cvs update 21 | cat -tvu Enter passphrase for key /home/luke/.ssh/id_dsa: cvs update: warning: unrecognized response `ok^M from cvs server using either the :pserver: or the external client-server via rsh methods. Anyway, in your case it should be as simple as this: PATH=/cygdrive/c/Program Files/cvsnt/bin:$PATH You may need to export EDITOR=notepad if you have trouble with cvs commits aborting because it can't run your editor. It all works fine; we've been using cvs-1.10 and earlier, compiled natively for Windows, for years. luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
RE: How to prepend a directory to the PATH to accommodate CVSNT?
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 12:45 AM Anyway, in your case it should be as simple as this: PATH=/cygdrive/c/Program Files/cvsnt/bin:$PATH Where do I put this statement? .bashrc? Thanks, Siegfried -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
RE: How to prepend a directory to the PATH to accommodate CVSNT?
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward L. Fox Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 12:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to prepend a directory to the PATH to accommodate CVSNT? Hi, Siegfried: In my opinion, I don't think it a good idea to use native Windows program in cygwin. Why? I do it all the time? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
RE: How to prepend a directory to the PATH to accommodate CVSNT?
On 5 Oct, Siegfried Heintze wrote: Anyway, in your case it should be as simple as this: PATH=/cygdrive/c/Program Files/cvsnt/bin:$PATH Where do I put this statement? .bashrc? You could, but why not put it in ~/.profile so it's read just once by the login shell, and any child shells then have it in the environment, instead of having to do it themselves? FRom memory, bash will look for ~/.bash_login, ~/.profile, ~/.login, (not sure if it's in that order), and use the first one it finds. But it won't do this if $HOME was created by Cygwin mkdir instead of by Windows Explorer, due to some mysterious access permissions problem. BTW, I use .profile because it's usable regardless of what (Bourne-like) shell you use. luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
How to prepend a directory to the PATH to accommodate CVSNT?
I notice that Cygwin manipulates the path by prepending /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin: to the windows PATH environment variable. This is a problem for me because I'm using CVSNT and I need my cvs client to be /cygdrive/c/Program Files/cvsnt/bin which it never sees because it finds cvs.exe in /usr/bin instead and this is not the cvsnt client! How do I prepend /cygdrive/c/Program Files/cvsnt/bin to the path? Thanks Siegfried -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
