On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 01:29:49AM GMT, Gerard Walschap wrote: > I see. There is a .bashrc file in my home directory with the line > ------------- > source /Users/gerard/perl5/perlbrew/etc/bashrc > ------------- > So I guess installing perl did override my .profile, although I'm not > sure how. The "source" man page redirects to "built in".
"source" will, well source a file (read if you will) and use the information from there to set environment variables, functions, etc. The fact that your .bashrc sources $HOME/perl5/perlbrew/etc/bashrc should generally be a good thing and probably is. It simply means that the above file passes some necessary environment variables, like additional $PATH to your $HOME/.bashrc, so you should not worry. > I'm not quite happy with the way perl installs itself, but at least > now I know how to remedy things. Thanks again, As I've written below, that line might be necessary if you'd like the program to run properly. Do however check its content. > -Gerard Regards, Raf -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
