[GenABEL-dev] how to get devel-version of GenABEL packages working on Linux or Mac OS, and how to commit changes

[L.C. Karssen]

On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 11:53 +0000, William Astle wrote:
> On 28/02/11 11:39, Yurii Aulchenko wrote:
> > Question (for all who feel in position to answer): should we just
> > modify the text saying that one should modify '.bashrc'? Is it always
> > there? May that lead to any undesirable consequences?

.bashrc is only there for people using bash, so those using csh, tcsh,
zsh, etc. are missing out. The question is, of course, doest this matter
with Bash being the most commonly used shell. Those running other shells
usually now they do. 
You could write in the instructions to modify .bashrc and point out that
it depends on the shell they use. You could even go as fas as let them
run ps -p $$ which will list the name of the shell and decide on that,
but that seems a bit too much. 

> 
> I don't know a lot about shell scripts but the default setup in Ubuntu 
> is for  .profile to call .bashrc, so if you modify .bashrc it works 
> either way. On the other hand the redhat server I use has neither file 
> by default. There's also the question of whether someone might not be 
> using a shall different from bash!

Exactly! 
By the way, that must be quite an old Red Hat server, right? As far as I
know RHEL5.x uses .bashrc and I thought RHEL4.x also did. 

> 
> This might be of interest:
> 
> http://hacktux.com/bash/bashrc/bash_profile

As pointed out in the link, most .bashrc's source the .bash_profile
file, so I guess we should stick with .bashrc. 



Lennart.

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