Install Cygwin On Windows Xp

Dennis C wrote: > > I have installed the lastest Cygwin and I get the bash shell windows > installed ok. However from my home directory, when I did pwd, I see > that the home directory has been placed in /cygdrive/c/Documents and > Settings/peter > > Now when I am installing GCC for the ARM processor, the configure > script has problem because of the spaces in the home directory > pathname. > > Is there anyway to install cygwin to any other directory other than > under Documents and Settings? Around here it is on c: cygwin. It is launched in its own window with a pif file and a startup batch file, using 4dos as the basic shell and starting bash. -- 'I'm a war president. I make decisions here in the Oval Office in foreign policy matters with war on my mind.'

Use C: cygwin as your root (Cygwin) directory, install for All Users, and use Default Text File Type of Unix (which is the 0x0A line termination character instead of the Windows convention of using two characters, 0x0D 0x0A ). Use C: cygwin Latest for the local package directory. This is a cache directory of binaries. How to Install and Configure Cygwin in Windows Environment By Vamsi Krishna – Posted on Sep 28, 2014 Sep 25, 2014 in Linux, Windows If you are a Linux or Unix user, I am sure you will miss the terminal (and all the wonderful things you can do with command lines) in a Windows environment.

'Churchill and Bush can both be considered wartime leaders, just as Secretariat and Mr Ed were both horses.' - James Rhodes. In comp.sys.arm Dennis C wrote: > I have installed the lastest Cygwin and I get the bash shell windows > installed ok. However from my home directory, when I did pwd, I see > that the home directory has been placed in /cygdrive/c/Documents and > Settings/peter > Is there anyway to install cygwin to any other directory other than > under Documents and Settings? It's just your home directory that is under 'My Documents', you can change that by editing /etc/passwd.

See the /etc/profile script to see why your home directory was placed where it was. 'Dennis C' wrote in message news:65ee8e539.67304f85@posting.google.com. > I have installed the lastest Cygwin and I get the bash shell windows > installed ok.

However from my home directory, when I did pwd, I see > that the home directory has been placed in /cygdrive/c/Documents and > Settings/peter > > Now when I am installing GCC for the ARM processor, the configure > script has problem because of the spaces in the home directory > pathname. > > Is there anyway to install cygwin to any other directory other than > under Documents and Settings? > > Thanks It's only your 'home' directory that is at issue, not the cygwin directory (which will probably be at 'c: cygwin' unless you told it otherwise during installation. You are suffering from MS's mind-numbingly stupid directory naming scheme that, along with its partner 'Program Files', causes all sorts of irritations and complications. Fortunately, it is possible to get around (at least on W2K) - use the user manager, and go to the advanced settings. In the profile for your user, set the home folder to 'c: users dennis' or something similar.

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Other useful tricks (I can't remember which ones are needed, and which are generated automatically) are to set environment variables HOME to 'c: users dennis', HOMEDRIVE to 'c:', and HOMEPATH to ' users dennis'. And remember to make a directory called 'c: Progs' or similar, and install programs there instead of under 'program files' - it makes it much easier to run them from the command line. [Note: F'up2 cut down --- should have been done by OP.] In comp.arch.embedded Dennis C wrote: > I have installed the lastest Cygwin and I get the bash shell windows > installed ok. However from my home directory, when I did pwd, I see > that the home directory has been placed in /cygdrive/c/Documents and > Settings/peter > Now when I am installing GCC for the ARM processor, the configure > script has problem because of the spaces in the home directory > pathname. > Is there anyway to install cygwin to any other directory other than > under Documents and Settings? You're mixing up the path cygwin itself is installed in with the path it places your $HOME directory in. The latter will be where XP has it unless you tell it otherwise.