On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 21:20:39 GMT, mark poole <netmonkey_uk yahoo co uk> said: > I updated environment variables thus (i installed to /opt/gtk): > > CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/gtk/include" > LDFLAGS="-L/opt/gtk/lib" > PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/opt/gtk/lib/pkgconfig" > export CPPFLAGS LDFLAGS PKG_CONFIG_PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/opt/gtk/lib" > > PATH="/opt/gtk/bin:$PATH" > export LD_LIBRARY_PATH PATH > > and everything seemed fine and worked. However when I turned off the > machine, all the variable changes were lost so gtk was no longer linked > in. > If I update the variables again everything works fine, but again a power > down causes the changes to be lost > > How can I keep the changes 'cos its a chuffin' pain to relink everytime > I turn the machine on Put the commands in the appropriate startup files for your shell. Almost all modern Unix shells have a systemwide and a per-user startup file for setting things like this. See /etc/profile and ~/.profile and/or ~/.bashrc for examples.
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