Eric Backus wrote: > Gustavo Seabra <gustavo.seabra <at> gmail.com> writes: > > Yes, you can do this. I've done this for years by > putting "/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/ericjb/My Documents" > into /etc/passwd. This works well, though every once in awhile you might > find > a shell script which doesn't correctly handle spaces in paths. (Such a > script > is broken, and should be fixed.) I can't even remember the last time I ran > into that though, most scripts don't use $HOME. > The cpan updater hated this if you pointed it at ~/.cpan. :P
I ended uphaving to find the cpan config file and do the ~1 replacement in it to get around it. Jason -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
