Harold L Hunt II wrote: > Sylvain Petreolle wrote: > >> Why not install a file in /etc/profile.d ? >> > > Sylvain, > > I am not sure why we didn't use /etc/profile.d. I remember discussing > it, but when I searched the mailing list archives using the search > function at the top of the archive page, all I got was a bunch of spam > messages that I don't recall ever seeing on the mailing list (at least > not on the dates mentioned). I will have to do a google search for > profile.d on our site, but I haven't got time now. If you could do the > search and summarize where the thread left off, that would be great. > > I seem to remember that a profile.d would work for some cases, but it > wouldn't work for all cases... but I cannot give a specific example > (might be the archives as well).
There was some talk about that on this thread: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2001-q2/threads.html#01549 There they say that the path to X should be set before any call to /etc/profile.d/* to be more Unix like (i.e. near the top of /etc/profile). It was suggested to add if ! echo $PATH | /bin/grep -q "/usr/X11R6/bin" ; then PATH="$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin" fi at the top of /etc/profile. The comment was: "Now the stock Cygwin /etc/profile (unlike the Linux one) actually sets a default PATH on the first line via PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:$PATH" Fortunately this puts the important system paths ahead of anything already defined, so it's OK to add /usr/X11R6/bin at the top." Post "http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2001-q2/msg01574.html"; is supposed to give a patch but I don't see it. Anyway, it was for the cygwin install (with the assumption that Cygwin/XFree would soon use Cygwin's setup). It's probably better to have a post-install script to do it Jehan
