From: David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts: Add 'environment' command.
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 08:27:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87oati3i79.fsf@izanagi.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8761fq99mr.fsf@gnu.org>
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu> skribis:
>
>> Fixed typo and pushed!
>
> Yay!
>
> I just noticed that ‘guix environment foo’, without -E, doesn’t work for
> me because my .bashrc & co. reset PATH, CPATH, etc.
>
> Conversely, ‘guix environment foo -E /bin/sh’ works, because when
> invoked as ‘sh’, Bash does not read .bashrc.
>
> I’m not sure if it’s something wrong with my Bash initialization files
> or something that might affect others. WDYT?
>
I don't think it's something "wrong" with your files, really, but it is
incompatible with the way 'guix environment' currently operates.
I took another look at nix-build to see how they do things. They create
a bashrc file in a temporary directory and run bash (or whatever
$NIX_BUILD_SHELL is) with the '--rcfile' flag so that the user's bashrc
isn't used. We could do something similar, but right now I don't have
any reason to believe that all shells accept an '--rcfile' option, so it
could easily break other setups.
Thoughts?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-11 12:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-08 22:48 [PATCH] scripts: Add 'environment' command David Thompson
2014-10-09 6:44 ` Alex Kost
2014-10-09 16:50 ` Eric Bavier
2014-10-09 16:54 ` Thompson, David
2014-10-09 17:26 ` Eric Bavier
2014-10-09 19:30 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-10-10 2:32 ` David Thompson
2014-10-10 12:09 ` David Thompson
2014-10-10 16:37 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-10-10 18:09 ` David Thompson
2014-10-10 20:47 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-10-10 22:16 ` David Thompson
2014-10-11 10:35 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-10-11 12:27 ` David Thompson [this message]
2014-10-11 21:52 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-10-12 4:43 ` Setting environment variables in .bashrc vs .bash_profile Mark H Weaver
2014-10-12 21:10 ` Ludovic Courtès
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