Re: please help: fink, xemacs
Re: please help: fink, xemacs
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 11:09:12AM -0700, Markian Hlynka wrote:
> On Monday, Mar 31, 2003, at 10:50 Canada/Mountain, Eric Dobbs wrote:
>
> I presume you're correct in how it works, and I _have in fact messed
> about with root's path (carefully). I haven't seen Tim's comment yet.
> But, what confuses me is that the scripts etc that fink is complaining
> about not being in my path _are in fact in my path (verified with
> "which"). So that's really confusing me!
Be very careful with "which". It lies. which is a csh script. It
therefore reads your /bin/[t]csh path, and will give the *wrong* answer
if your path as set up for csh is different from that for bourne shells,
and this is likely to be the case for users (like root) whose login
shell is not csh or tcsh.
bash has a builtin called "type" which has similar functionality (and is
somewhat better - it understands aliases and shell functions properly)
See my other post with the link to why the csh is utterly evil for
writing scripts.
> Well, lo and behold.. that works!!! why doesn't fink commander work
> then? I would _really like fink commander to work!
fink commander is a cocoa app, right? I don't know where Cocoa apps
inherit their path from, if indeed they inherit a UNIX-style path at
all. PATHs are a feature of the exec() family of system calls - if the
Cocoa side of things does something else to launch programs, the PATH
will be irrelevant anyway.
>
> I presume that I should be able to use fink, dselect, and fink
> commander pretty much interchangeably...? (though not simultaneously!
> :) )
My experience with Debian Linux was that it was always sensible to use
one package management tool and stick with it. Just because they
*should* all work together doesn't mean that they necessarily *do*. :-)
Personally, I use dselect and apt-get (dselect uses apt-get internally
anyway, once you've selected what to install).
I've never been much of a fan of graphical software managers. The only
one I've ever seen that came even close to working properly was the one
that SGI shipped with IRIX. And even that had its problems.
Tim
--
Dr Tim Cutts
Informatics Systems Group
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK
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