On 8/28/05 1:59 PM, "Martin Costabel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> David Newman wrote:
>> On 8/27/05 8:19 AM, "Peter O'Gorman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> []
>>> Okay, as far as I know the required perl libraries are installed by fink, so
>>> try '/sw/bin/init.sh ; gnucash & ' to lauch gnucash, and see if it still
>>> complains.
>
> This was bad advice (typo I guess). You don't *execute* /sw/bin/init.sh,
> you *source* it.
>
> Not 'sw/bin/init.sh' but '. /sw/bin/init.sh' or, equivalently and less
> typo-prone, 'source /sw/bin/init.sh'
>
> The difference is that if you *execute* it, you run it in a subshell and
> so all the environment variables that are set inside the script are lost
> upon return from the script, whereas if you *source* it, you run it in
> the current shell and the environment variables remain set so they can
> contribute to the environment for gnucash. This is what you need.
OK, thanks.
I did not have to perform the extra step of sourcing with Fink 0.7.x under
Panther. There, I also launched gnucash under Apple's X11, and since quote
updates worked, I presume gnucash was getting its PERL5LIB variable.
Is there a way to automate sourcing of init.sh? My .profile file already has
the "test -r .." line adding during installation.
thanks again
dn
>>
>>
>> OK, I see the problem. Under the 0.8.0 binay install for Tiger,
>> /sw/bin/init.sh is owned by root:admin and has 0644 permissions. Users can't
>> initialize environment variables because they can't run the init script.
>>
>> "chmod 0755 /sw/bin/init.sh" fixes this.
>
> No, 644 is correct.
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