RE: CygWin 1.1.4: problem in default /etc/profile when HOME has s paces

[Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>]

Brad's comment is certainly valid but your solution, Ignasi, is already
implemented in the current setup.exe.  IMO the better solution is to use a
mount point like so (using Brad's example):
  mkdir -p /home/palau ;# if it doesn't already exist
  mount -b "C:/Documents and Settings/palau/My Documents" /home/palau

I suppose that we should add a W2K entry in the TODO list for this issue.

Cheers,
Earnie.
--- "Town, Brad" <btown@ceddec.com> wrote:
> The best solution would be to not have spaces in HOME at all, since it
> breaks many a good program.  For example, if you wanted your home directory
> to be "C:\Documents and Settings\palau\My Documents", you could use
> "C:\Docume~1\palau\MyDocu~1" or a mount point.
> 
> Brad Town
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ignasi Palou-Rivera [mailto:palou@yahoo.com]
> > Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 9:33 AM
> > To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> > Subject: CygWin 1.1.4: problem in default /etc/profile when HOME has
> > spaces
> > 
> > 
> > The default /etc/profile for the 1.1.4 version of CygWin chokes when
> > HOME is defined including blanks. The solution is to quote the
> > reference to $HOME in line 14:
> > 
> > IPALOU$ diff profile profile.orig
> > 14c14
> > < if [ ! -d "$HOME" ]; then
> > ---
> > > if [ ! -d $HOME ]; then
> > 
> > I'm running under Win2000, but I'm sure that's irrelevant.
> > 
> > Ignasi.
> 
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