From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Setting environment variables in .bashrc vs .bash_profile
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 00:43:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y4slyk2k.fsf_-_@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8761fq99mr.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Sat, 11 Oct 2014 12:35:40 +0200")
ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> 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?
FWIW, I've always put my environment variable settings in .bash_profile
instead of .bashrc for this reason. I want to be able to set up an
alternate environment and launch interactive subshells without resetting
everything.
I vaguely remember noticing that the standalone Guix system set things
up in such a way that my environment was reset in every interactive
shell. If so, I would be in favor of changing that.
On the other hand, I end up with
/gnu/store/10fr8jbnrb3gzyc0967m7ar64ch9ggk8-windowmaker-0.95.6/bin in
front of my PATH within my entire X session, because of our windowmaker
wrapper.
Thoughts?
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-12 4:43 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
2014-10-11 21:52 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-10-12 4:43 ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
2014-10-12 21:10 ` Setting environment variables in .bashrc vs .bash_profile Ludovic Courtès
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