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FW: Cannot install cygwin on Windows Xp
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:04:43 +0100
- Subject: FW: Cannot install cygwin on Windows Xp
On 13 April 2007 16:01, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 13 April 2007 15:53, Guillaume Ricaud wrote:
>
>> Thanks for your reply
>>
>> /etc/setup/last-action says :
>>
>> Download,Install
>>
>> /var/log/setup.log.full says :
>>
>> 2007/04/13 16:10:43 running: D:\AVL\BASH\v2.05-6\bin\\bash.exe -c
>
> ARRGH! You have some bogus stuff in your PATH variable! That's not
> cygwin's bash, that's some foreign bash!
Setup.exe probably wants to cut down the %PATH% settings when it invokes
external executables; am I wrong in thinking there's no need at all to be
running anything from outside the newly-installed cygwin tree (and the basic
windows system dirs)?
cheers,
DaveK
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