[geeks] ZSH + cygwin = Gaaah!

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Micah R Ledbetter wrote:
>> This shit is infuriating.  Apparently zsh can no longer find 
>> anything relative to cygwin's /.  This used to work.  In fact, it's
>>  working fine on the machine on which I'm writing this email, but 
>> it doesn't want to work on a fresh cygwin install.  (On the machine
>>  on which I'm testing out Windows XP Pro x64.)  I hate it when 
>> people fuck with code that isn't broken.  Gaaaah!!
> 
> This seems to happen to me eventually whenever I install Cygwin. I 
> usually end up using SFU. It's more of a bitch to get working, but at
>  least you can use pkgsrc. (Other options: MinGW/MSYS, DJGPP, UWIN, 
> unxutils.)
> 
> I've never tried to fix the Cygwin problem, though :p. Perhaps it's 
> something simple that my lazy self just hasn't discovered. I have 
> wondered if it's a $PATH issue... I think that I changed my Windows 
> $PATH right before it happened last time.

I fixed it.

For future reference I had to "downgrade" from 4.3.2 to 4.2.6.  More of 
an upgrade, if you ask me.

Peace...  Sridhar