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Re: [1.7] HOME directory is always /tmp
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:40:21 -0400
- Subject: Re: [1.7] HOME directory is always /tmp
- References: <806a89db0906291420r3e53e4ecj3cae2de045337c26@mail.gmail.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 03:20:38PM -0600, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
>I had been running 1.7 in my \cygwin-1.7 directory.
>
>I decided to clean up this morning and created a \cygwin directory
>using setup-1.7.exe to re-load all my stuff (gcc, emacs, X server,
>etc.). I renamed the old 1.7 directory to cygwin-1.7.old so it
>wouldn't be "in the way".
Have you downloaded a new version of setup-1.7.exe recently? There was
a bug (that I introduced) in this version which set HOME to /tmp during
installation. I don't know if this version was ever released but, if
it was, it may have caused this problem.
cgf
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