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From: Elias Pipping <pipping@××××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] [prefix] startprefix not sourcing prefixed profile, PATH not set
Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2007 16:46:43
Message-Id: C3FA529A-4269-474D-9738-DC00B9FAEBA3@math.fu-berlin.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] [prefix] startprefix not sourcing prefixed profile, PATH not set by Fabian Groffen
1 Hi,
2
3 I have exactly the same problem. It's bash-specific, though.
4
5 zsh and tcsh work fine (note that bash *did* work until a month ago
6 and then
7 broke for some reason.
8
9 To work around this, you can create a link from ${eprefix}/etc/
10 profile to ~/.profile
11
12
13 Kind regards,
14
15 Elias
16
17
18 On Jul 8, 2007, at 6:38 PM, Fabian Groffen wrote:
19
20 > On 08-07-2007 10:29:18 -0600, Aaron Wilson wrote:
21 >> I've just bootstraped a fresh install of OS X 10.4.10 according to
22 >> the
23 >> documentation. I tried using the startprefix script that is
24 >> mentioned but
25 >> the prefixed bash doesn't source the prefixed profile and my PATH
26 >> is not
27 >> set.
28 >>
29 >> Should executing the startprefix (essentially executing
30 >> ~/Library/Gentoo/bin/bash) script cause the prefixed profile
31 >
32 > This is not enough, you need to start a login shell i.e. bash -l.
33 >
34 >> (~/Library/Gentoo/etc/profile) to be sourced?
35 >
36 > However, this sounds strange. What happens if you have execute
37 > ~/Library/Gentoo/bin/bash -l? Do you get a Gentoo prompt (providing
38 > that you don't change your prompt in your own config files)?
39 >
40 > --
41 > Fabian Groffen
42 > Gentoo on a different level
43 >
44 > --
45 > gentoo-alt@g.o mailing list
46 >
47
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Re: [gentoo-alt] [prefix] startprefix not sourcing prefixed profile, PATH not set Aaron Wilson <tallest@×××××.com>