Re: [Fink-users] path problem, 2nd try

2010-02-23 Thread Patrick . Wambacq
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010, Martin Costabel wrote: > patrick.wamb...@esat.kuleuven.be wrote: > [] >> I don't see why /sw/bin/init.sh would clean up all this: as far as >> I can see it only prepends /sw/bin:/sw/sbin to the PATH if that string is >> not already present (at least in my version of the scri

Re: [Fink-users] path problem, 2nd try

2010-02-22 Thread Martin Costabel
patrick.wamb...@esat.kuleuven.be wrote: [] > I don't see why /sw/bin/init.sh would clean up all this: as far as > I can see it only prepends /sw/bin:/sw/sbin to the PATH if that string > is not already present (at least in my version of the script, which > was installed along with fink and never

Re: [Fink-users] path problem, 2nd try

2010-02-22 Thread Patrick . Wambacq
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010, Martin Costabel wrote: > The weird PATH you get in your situation (4) is the result of /etc/profile > executing `/usr/libexec/path_helper -s`. On 10.5, the path_helper script was > a (very complicated) shell script, on 10.6 it is a compiled executable, so I > don't quite kn

Re: [Fink-users] path problem, 2nd try

2010-02-22 Thread Martin Costabel
Alexander Hansen wrote: [] > Interesting. I assume ~/.bash_profile _didn't_ get processed for > X11.app on 10.4 and possibly some vintages of it on 10.5. That was why > we'd been advocating that people use "xterm -ls", and it's consistent > with what I observed on my own machines--at some point o

Re: [Fink-users] path problem, 2nd try

2010-02-22 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 2/22/10 9:01 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: > patrick.wamb...@esat.kuleuven.be wrote: > [] >>> /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister >>> >>> -u /Applications/Utilities/X11.app >>> >>> When you restart X11 after this, the PATH shoul

Re: [Fink-users] path problem, 2nd try

2010-02-22 Thread Martin Costabel
patrick.wamb...@esat.kuleuven.be wrote: [] >> /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister >> >> -u /Applications/Utilities/X11.app >> >> When you restart X11 after this, the PATH should be correctly set in your >> xterm, even without r

Re: [Fink-users] path problem, 2nd try

2010-02-22 Thread Patrick . Wambacq
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010, Martin Costabel wrote: > patrick.wamb...@esat.kuleuven.be wrote: >> Hi, >> >> A few weeks ago I already submitted a post about difficulties with >> my $PATH variable. It wasn't solved at that time but then I got >> overloaded with work and couldn't spend more efforts on it. >

Re: [Fink-users] path problem, 2nd try

2010-02-21 Thread Martin Costabel
patrick.wamb...@esat.kuleuven.be wrote: > Hi, > > A few weeks ago I already submitted a post about difficulties with > my $PATH variable. It wasn't solved at that time but then I got > overloaded with work and couldn't spend more efforts on it. > > But the problem is still there and now I want to

Re: [Fink-users] path problem, 2nd try

2010-02-21 Thread Patrick . Wambacq
On Sun, 21 Feb 2010, Alexander Hansen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 2/21/10 10:41 AM, patrick.wamb...@esat.kuleuven.be wrote: >> Hi, >> >> A few weeks ago I already submitted a post about difficulties with >> my $PATH variable. It wasn't solved at that time but th

Re: [Fink-users] path problem, 2nd try

2010-02-21 Thread Alexander Hansen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/21/10 10:41 AM, patrick.wamb...@esat.kuleuven.be wrote: > Hi, > > A few weeks ago I already submitted a post about difficulties with > my $PATH variable. It wasn't solved at that time but then I got > overloaded with work and couldn't spend more

[Fink-users] path problem, 2nd try

2010-02-21 Thread Patrick . Wambacq
Hi, A few weeks ago I already submitted a post about difficulties with my $PATH variable. It wasn't solved at that time but then I got overloaded with work and couldn't spend more efforts on it. But the problem is still there and now I want to solve it once and for all. This is what happens: - w