Re: Shell changes-executables not working
Re: Shell changes-executables not working
- Subject: Re: Shell changes-executables not working
- From: Craig Sutherland <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:15:08 -0600
David,
Here is a link
<http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?
story=20031026091804549&query=add+to+path> that gives a good
description and example of what needs to be done.
Craig Sutherland
"Who is John Galt"
On Oct 30, 2003, at 8:32 AM, Mindy and David Gonzalez wrote:
>> Constantinos Antoniou
>> Ph.D. Candidate
>> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>> Intelligent Transportation Systems Program
>> 77 Massachusetts Ave., NE20-208, Cambridge, MA 02139
>> (T) 617-252-1113 * (F) 617-252-1130 * (email) email@hidden
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>> Message: 18
>> Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 16:40:53 -0500
>> From: Deep Thought <email@hidden>
>> To: email@hidden
>> Subject: Re: Shell changes-executables not working
>>
>> I don't know for sure what the problem might be as I have never used
>> poy, but generally what I would try is recompiling any libraries poy
>> depends on and then recompile poy. If it only requires the SDK, make
>> sure that the NEW X11 SDK is installed and then recompile poy. This
>> has worked for me for a few applications.
>>
>> Good Luck,
>>
>> DT
>>
>> On Tuesday, October 28, 2003, at 03:33PM, David <email@hidden>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I am an evolutionary biologist trying to get a niffty program called
>>> poy to run on my desktop. If it works there I will be able to get
>>> the
>>> IT personal install the necessary software to run it on lab
>>> computers.
>>>
>>> In 10.2.8, running the most recent X11 beta with the SDK installed, I
>>> was able to run poy without a hitch. I'm a gluten for punishment,
>>> so I
>>> installed 10.3 with the included X11. I knew that fink and it's
>>> components would not work but now poy doesn't work.
>>>
>>> I did notice that instead of firing up in tcsh, X11 now opens to what
>>> appears to be bash shell, I've switched over to tcsh and tried the
>>> poy
>>> executable from w/in its directory and no luck.
>>>
>>> Any ideas why what once worked does not? Keep in mind, poy is not
>>> dependent on any fink installations as far as I can tell. It does,
>>> however, require the SDK to operate.
>>>
>>> Muchas gracias for any feedback,
>>>
>>> david gonzalez
>>> byu dept. int. bio
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>
> Well, now I'm faced with a new problem. I figured out that from some
> of the apps in X11, the commands will not run. This is because the
> path on my new account, same box - just a new account, did not include
> the locations of the command executables. Not a problem right?
>
> set path=(.....)
>
> I'm obviously a novice, because when I do that the path only remains
> for the current session. Quit the x server and login again, path is
> back to the default. I imagine there is a configure file of some kind
> but I don't know where to look. Could I get some help on setting the
> path and keeping it set for more than a single session?
>
> Thanks again you've all been very helpful,
>
>
>
> David Gonzalez
> Brigham Young University
> Dept. Int. Bio.
> (801) 422-3090
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