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Re: fish PATH problem
- From: Andrew Schulman <schulman dot andrew at epa dot gov>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 10:01:27 -0400
- Subject: Re: fish PATH problem
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> On 08/10/2014 18:36, Alive4Ever wrote:
> > On Wednesday, October 08, 2014 11:08:43 AM you wrote:
> >> Does that work. It seemed to have the same issue as noted in the
> >> following thread https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-04/msg00111.html
> >>
> > It should work, although I don't recommend running cygwin apps directly
> > via wincmd, unless the underlying shell is invoked as interactive login
> > shell.
> So I just re-tested starting a fish login shell after updating cygwin64.
> As I suspected, fish has not been updated since the thread I quoted (Apr
> 2014), and the issue remains (with my install). Google doesn't show the
> maintainer on list since the announcement (Oct 2013), and his e-mail
> bounces. Cc'ing anyway, just in case.
If fish needs a new maintainer, it looks like not a hard package to
maintain. It has a simple and up-to-date cygport script, and builds OOTB
with just one small source code patch.
> Andrew: appreciated if you can confirm whether simply invoking as a
> login shell works for you.
It sort of works. When I change my shell to /usr/bin/fish in /etc/passwd
and run
C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe -
I don't get any error messages, as I first reported. But the environment
isn't set up correctly. The main problem seems to be that although I'm
running 64-bit cygwin, the directory for 32-bit cygwin is mounted as the
root filesystem:
~> cygpath -w /
C:\cygwin
By comparison when I start fish from bash, I get:
aschulma@LC77E1AASCHULMA ~> cygpath -w /
C:\cygwin64
This is a pretty serious problem. Any thoughts on why it happens?
Andrew
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