RE: problems with XFree

["Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Jehan,

Excellent summarization of the thread regarding how we can add
/usr/X11R6/bin to the path.

Looks like we had Dave Cook and Robert Collins discussing the best way to do
things but then the thread died.

I don't really think that I know how to implement the best solution here, so
I will just have to leave this up to others.

Harold

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Jehan
> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 10:17 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: problems with XFree
>
>
> Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> > Sylvain Petreolle wrote:
> >
> >> Why not install a file in /etc/profile.d ?
> >>
> >
> > Sylvain,
> >
> > I am not sure why we didn't use /etc/profile.d.  I remember discussing
> > it, but when I searched the mailing list archives using the search
> > function at the top of the archive page, all I got was a bunch of spam
> > messages that I don't recall ever seeing on the mailing list (at least
> > not on the dates mentioned).  I will have to do a google search for
> > profile.d on our site, but I haven't got time now.  If you could do the
> > search and summarize where the thread left off, that would be great.
> >
> > I seem to remember that a profile.d would work for some cases, but it
> > wouldn't work for all cases... but I cannot give a specific example
> > (might be the archives as well).
>
> There was some talk about that on this thread:
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2001-q2/threads.html#01549
>
> There they say that the path to X should be set before any call to
> /etc/profile.d/* to be more Unix like (i.e. near the top of /etc/profile).
>
> It was suggested to add
> 	if ! echo $PATH | /bin/grep -q "/usr/X11R6/bin" ; then
> 	  PATH="$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin"
> 	fi
>
> at the top of /etc/profile. The comment was:
> 	"Now the stock Cygwin /etc/profile (unlike the Linux one)
> 	actually sets a default PATH on the first line via
>
> 	PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:$PATH"
>
> 	Fortunately this puts the important system paths ahead of
> 	anything already defined, so it's OK to add /usr/X11R6/bin at
> 	the top."
>
> Post "http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2001-q2/msg01574.html";
> is supposed to give a patch but I don't see it. Anyway, it was for the
> cygwin install (with the assumption that Cygwin/XFree would soon use
> Cygwin's setup). It's probably better to have a post-install
> script to do it
>
> 	Jehan
>
>
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