Re: [AUCTeX] AUCTeX, Cygwin and Vista

[Alexey Romanov]

David Kastrup writes:
>Ciaran Taylor <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>     I've tried to follow your advice with Cygwin, but run into a weird
>>     difficulty:
>>     I get "/bin/sh: command not found". "which sh" shows
>>     /cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin/sh.
>>     I've replaced /bin/sh with /cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin/sh everywhere I've
>> found
>>     it.
>
>You should rather have started Cygwin with the respective batch script
>which is, if I remember correctly, supposed to _mount_ the bin and other
>directories (which gets recorded in the registry or something).

Not the batch script, but rerunning setup.exe under the Administrator
account worked 
(even though Cygwin was installed for all users from beginning).

>> I have no experience with Cygwin, but I notice that the file
>> INSTALL.windows says "Avoid `helpful' magic file names like
>> `/cygdrive/c' and `C:\PROGRA~1\' like the plague.  It is quite
>> unlikely that the scripts will be able to identify the actual file
>> names involved."  I don't entirely understand what the problem might
>> be with `/cygdrive/c' , but could your difficulties be something to do
>> with this?
>
>Possibly.  c:/whatever is probably what should have been used here, but
>this does not change that Cygwin will not be able to find /bin/sh for
>scripting (an entirely different problem, actually) unless /bin is
>actually mounted.

It worked! Thank you!
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