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Re: Small fix to Cygwin FAQ


On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Mateusz oskot wrote:

> Igor Peshansky wrote:
> > On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Mateusz oskot wrote:
> >
> >> I'm Mateusz, a new user of Cygwin.
> >> [snip]
> >> I tested this note and I noticed that .bashrc is not loaded when
> >> launching cygwin.bat or bash --login -i command.
> >
> > Well, no, it isn't.  However, ~/.bash_profile is, and it should have been
> > added by the default installation script.  And the default ~/.bash_profile
> > reads ~/.bashrc, so you get the same functionality whether you are in a
> > login shell or not.
>
> OK, but why FAQ does not instruct user to edit ~/.bash_profile file?

In addition to what Dave said, by default ~/.bash_profile sources
~/.bashrc, so by editing .bashrc you'll get this for both non-login and
login shells.

> >> BTW, should I send output from cygcheck -s -v -r command?
> >
> > Yes, it's always a good idea when reporting problems with your
> > installation.
>
> OK, here it is:
>
> //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
>
> Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics
> [snip]

In the future, please attach the cygcheck output as an uncompressed text
attachment, to avoid adding false-positive hits to archive searches.
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