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 > > > > >
That's useful information. I forgot to mention that I do cross-call, using .bash_profile to source .bashrc . ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
