On 1/16/14 10:39 AM, Thomas Schneider wrote: > Alexander: > >> After a bit of checking, I found that we explicitly set xfig to look >> in the right place for its app-default file at compile time. The >> lookup can be overridden by environment variables and dot files, as >> Martin mentioned in his message, so I'd recommend checking on what >> he mentioned. > > AH!!! > > setenv XAPPLRESDIR /sw/etc/app-defaults/ > > Having that in my environment does the trick! >
Darn, I missed seeing that you were lacking this in your prior message. > Solved! It would help to have fink tell the user, at the end of the > install, that the above is needed in their environment! > > It's not clear though why the installed fink didn't default to that. > > Tom > > Thomas D. Schneider, Ph.D. > Senior Investigator > National Institutes of Health > National Cancer Institute > Center for Cancer Research > Gene Regulation and Chromosome Biology Laboratory > Molecular Information Theory Group > Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201 > schne...@mail.nih.gov > http://schneider.ncifcrf.gov/ (current link) > http://alum.mit.edu/www/toms (permanent link) > This is supposed to happen automatically after the app-defaults package is installed, though one either needs to start a new terminal or to source /sw/bin/init.(c)sh again. If you didn't start a new terminal or if you aren't using "source /sw/bin/init.csh" in your .cshrc (or whatever) to load all of Fink's environment hooks, then that would account for the variable not having been set for you. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list Fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
