Am 05.10.2005 um 09:25 schrieb Martin Costabel:
Max Horn wrote:
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He then got an error message by the installer, telling him about
a problem setting up his .profile. Luckily I was around and he
knew that I was somehow affiliated with this "Fink thingy". And
indeed I managed to "fix" the broken installation by changing
his .profile to .bashrc (no idea why this was necessary;
interestingly, on my PowerBook, also running 10.4, the exact
opposite is the case: .profile works fine, .bashrc apparently is
being ignore). Well I already filed a bug report for this (may
not be our fault, but we still have to deal with it, I am afraid).
There has been a bug report on this for a long time (#1020637). The
problem is that the pathsetup script, when run automatically by the
installer, sometimes suffers from a split personality syndrome: In
the middle of its execution, it seems to forget that it runs as
$USER and starts thinking it is root. Therefore it creates
~/.profile with root as owner (but in the correct home directory of
$USER) and worse, when it tests whether the new setting works, it
does the test as root and concludes that it doesn't work.
The only thing usually necessary to repair this is to run
sudo chown $USER ~/.profile
Actually we did that, but it didn't help. Odd...
after the installation. Putting the "source /sw/bin/init.sh" into
~/.bashrc is not considered good practice, because .bashrc is
executed in every subshell, but not in a login shell.
Yeah I know, but in this case it was the only way we got it to work :-/
Bye,
Max
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