On Mar 21, 2008, at 4:43 PM, Martin Costabel wrote:

> Alexander Hansen wrote:
> []
>> setting it in .bashrc rather than .bash_profile or .profile makes   
>> Apple's X11 use the Fink environment on 10.3 (and later), and  
>> ensures  that things work when one invokes a Fink-installed program  
>> from the  Applications menu that in turn calls on some other Fink- 
>> installed  program.  (I've posted to this effect before on these  
>> lists).
>
> On Leopard, this can have the opposite effect, because there X11  
> starts itself inside a bash login shell, and bash invoked as a login  
> shell does not read ~/.bashrc (unless you do some cross calling  
> between startup scripts).
>
> -- 
> Martin
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That's useful information.

I forgot to mention that I do cross-call, using .bash_profile to  
source .bashrc .

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