On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Ben Hoskings <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2010/3/31 David Frascone <[email protected]>
>
>
>> And, my path is set completely differently. Ok -- so -- that could just
>> be some weird login -vs- interactive shell setting. I get that. But,
>> here's the really strange part. In my home directory's config.fish, I have
>> this snippet:
>>
>> if [ -d ~/bin ]
>> echo "PATH before: " $PATH
>> set -g PATH $PATH ~/bin
>> echo "PATH after: " $PATH
>> end
>>
>>
>> So, if my ~/bin exists, it will be appended to the path. For the login
>> shell, this works. For all other shells, the code executes, but the path
>> does NOT change -- WTF?!?!?!
>>
>
> Setting the PATH fails if any of the component dirs don't exist. And it
> fails with a broken error message - 'value too large to be stored in data
> type'.
>
>
The path DOES exist -- it does go into the if statement on the first (login)
shell, and it does set the path.
On the second shell, it also goes into the if statement -- the directory
still exists. However, the path is not appended this time.
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