Re: Issue with installing old G2 in seperate prefix

[textshell neutronstar dyndns org]

On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 05:41:38AM +0100, mike wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 05:16, John Palmieri wrote:
> > If you are running the bash shell it will source the .bash_profile file
> > in your home directory.  Other shells have similar profile files that
> > are sourced whenever a shell is loaded (in your case, opening up a
> > terminal window).  Just export the needed variables at the end of your
> > .bash_profile and you should be set.
> 
> confused - isn't .bash_profile source on login, so shouldnt env
> variables exported afterwards override it?

But .bashrc is loaded for non login shells, und in case you have a broken 
distribution (I have too, SuSE 8) that overrides the your path. check that 
file and change the relevant parts.



Martin H.