cygwin.bat improvements (was Re: Cygwin on XP disapearing terminal mystery)

Wed Feb 1 03:51:00 GMT 2006

On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 07:38:31PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote:
>Harry Putnam wrote:
>>>> ericblake@comcast.net (Eric Blake) writes:
>>>> > If you expect help, then try opening a plain cmd.com window
>> > first, running bash there and seeing if any error messages
>> > appear. Also, send, as a text attachment, the output of
>> > 'cygcheck -svr'.
>>>> When trying the cmd shell approach it became apparent that bash had
>> disappeared off the system.... thanks.
>>Since this seems to come up every so often, what if we made a couple of
>small changes to cygwin.bat to aid in debugging this? Specifically, I
>was thinking that cygwin.bat could create a marker file (say something
>like ".uncleanstartup") in the same directory as the .bat file, and add
>something to the base-files rc files that deletes this file at the end
>of the startup procedure. Then cygwin.bat can check for existence of
>this marker after executing bash, and if found it can print a short
>message and then run "pause" so that the user can see any error messages
>on the screen. The message could perhaps say a few words about PATH
>settings or cygcheck and the mailing list, etc.

Couldn't it just replace the bash line with:
 if exist bash.exe goto ok
 echo **** bash.exe is missing - please install it
 pause
 :ok
 bash --login -i
?
cgf
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