Re: mintty fails to start

2017-01-20 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 20.01.2017 um 22:19 schrieb Emember MemberUS via cygwin: ... Suggestion: produce an error message that would help identifying this problem when mintty starts. NOTE: this issue happens only in cygwin, and only when both files are present: /bin/bash.exe and empty /bin/bash.

Re: mintty fails to start

2017-01-20 Thread Emember MemberUS via cygwin
- Original Message - From: Emember MemberUS To: "cygwin@cygwin.com" Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2017 10:25 AM Subject: mintty fails to start This is a minor issue and probably not typical, but could be of interest to cygwin developers/maintainers. Problem: After bu

Re: mintty fails to start

2017-01-19 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 19.01.2017 um 16:25 schrieb Emember MemberUS via cygwin: ... Suggestion: produce an error message that would help identifying this problem when mintty starts. NOTE: this issue happens only in cygwin, and only when both files are present: /bin/bash.exe and empty /bin/bash. If no bash is pres

mintty fails to start

2017-01-19 Thread Emember MemberUS via cygwin
This is a minor issue and probably not typical, but could be of interest to cygwin developers/maintainers. Problem: After building a 3-party cross-toolchain (unrelated to cygwin), mintty is no longer able to start. While a few mintty windows that were still open worked ok, any NEW mintty windo