On Sun, Mar 10, 2002, Knute wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Ken Weingold wrote:
>
> > I am getting a new shell account where I am limited 50 megs of space.
> > Even though I use my own patched version of mutt, they do have it
> > installed. What I want to do is use the mutt binary from ~/bin, but
> > use the rest of the stuff from the system directories. What is the
> > best way to do this? I am thinking I guess about compile parameters,
> > etc.
>
> > Thanks.
>
> One option would be to put ~/bin into your $PATH statement.
> I use bash and it is setup in my ~/.bash_profile file.
>
> # set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
>
> if [ -d ~/bin ] ; then
> PATH="./:~/bin:/usr/lib/xscreensaver:${PATH}"
> fi
Thanks, but I was thinking more about how mutt will know to look for
everything in the system directories. I was thinking of building mutt
and just copying the binary into ~/bin.
-Ken
