On 29 Dec 2006, at 15:46:01, Mark Duling wrote:
Merton Campbell Crockett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Friday,
December
29, 2006 at 3:07 PM -0800 wrote:
I ran into similar problems without Fink being installed. I found
that I had to change the file name to ~./.bash_profile to get
consistent results. Also, as I tend to use an X Terminal instead of
the Apple Terminal, I discovered that I needed to add the "-ls"
switch to the ~./.xinitrc file and the X11 Terminal application.
Do you have multiple shell profiles? In the MacPorts install
instructions
after editing the .profile, I put this in the Important Notes:
Other profile files may conflict with ~./profile and should be
removed, so
remove any occurrances of these files:
• ~/.bash_login
• ~/.bash_profile
That was my stab at anticipating problems. I'm not entirely sure
it is
correct, but it seems like a bad idea to have more than one and I'm
not
sure the order of precedence if these files are present in addition to
~/.profile.
I'm not sure when I noticed that the contents of ~/.profile were not
being incorporated into my environment. It may have been just after
upgrading to Mac OS X 10.4 or after one of the upgrades that have
been released. It didn't become a real issue until I attempted to
upgrade Ethereal to analyze a network problem.
I wanted to have the same environment and behaviour whether I used
Apple Terminal or an X11 xterm. To achieve that goal, I found that I
needed to have a ~/.bash_profile. I incorporated the DarwinPorts' ~./
profile contents into the ~/.bash_profile to eliminate the problems
that I was having. As you note, the ~./profile file will be ignored
when ~/.bash_profile exists.
Merton Campbell Crockett
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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