Re: Symbolic link to GNUstep.sh in /etc/profile.d

[Gregory Casamento]

Ah okay.  I had thought it was only for bash.  But yes that's even better!  We can link the .sh and .csh versions there. 

On Tuesday, September 16, 2014, Robert Slover <address@hidden> wrote:

Not sure what OS's you're checking, but this is definitely not true. On RHEL, for example, /etc/profile.d/*.sh are sourced by at least /bin/sh, /bin/bash, and /bin/ksh and /etc/profile.d/*.csh are sourced by /bin/tcsh and /bin/csh. In practice, this generally just means:

 1) you can just provide equivalent *.csh scripts to get equivalent behavior in those shells

  2) you should restrict your syntax in *.sh scripts to the common subset of the standard shells - e.g. don't use 'typeset' (understood only by KSH) or 'declare' (understood only by BASH). 

--Robert

On Sep 16, 2014, at 10:08, Gregory Casamento <address@hidden> wrote:

Only bash cares about what's in profile.d.  Also a number of different frameworks already do this for various reasons.  It seems perfectly reasonable for us to do this upon installation.

GC

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 8:21 AM, Ivan Vučica <address@hidden> wrote:

SGTM. Especially when binary packages are built.

Which shells execute /etc/profile.d? Could this break csh et al?

On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 10:00 PM, Gregory Casamento <address@hidden> wrote:

Hey guys.

I'm wondering if placing a symbolic link to GNUstep.sh on install might not be a good idea.  Other frameworks (qt) do this to add environment variables to the shell when the user logs in.  I currently do this and it makes using GNUstep much nicer since the environment is already configured whether I am using the FHS layout or the GNUstep layout.

I just wanted to see what everyone thought about doing this before taking any steps.

We currently do something similar to this by adding GNUstep.conf in /etc, but this does not set up the environment (at least not for me).

Please let me know your thoughts.

​GC​

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