[Touch-packages] [Bug 589496] Re: bash --rcfile does not behave as documented

2023-06-01 Thread Michael McNeil Forbes
My use case: I want to be able to spawn a clean shell with a customized development environment (python) from a Makefile (i.e. `make shell` runs `bash --init-file .init_file.bash` which does not inherit cruft from the environment (such as activated conda environments, PATHs etc.) ``` shell: b

[Touch-packages] [Bug 589496] Re: bash --rcfile does not behave as documented

2023-05-28 Thread Michael McNeil Forbes
What is the status of this? There is a further discussion from Chet here: https://www.mail-archive.com/bug-bash@gnu.org/msg20804.html Why does Debian enable -DSYS_BASHRC? This question does not seem to be answered anywhere. Is there a workaround? Can someone release an alternate version of ba