Re: Environment variables in Guix and GuixSD

["Gábor Boskovits" <boskovits@gmail.com>]

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Hello Ludo,

2018. nov. 7., Sze 22:55 dátummal Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> ezt írta:

> Hi,
>
> Gábor Boskovits <boskovits@gmail.com> skribis:
>
> > I have seen in the /etc/profile file that it suggest you to do something
> like
> >
> > source $GUIX_PROFILE/etc/profile.
>
> Right, you see this advice in $GUIX_PROFILE/etc/profile itself.
>
> > This causes problems on systems where the startup file is executed by
> > a posix /bin/sh, as this is bash specific.
>
> $GUIX_PROFILE/etc/profile is not honored by any shell.  One has to
> specifically put the ‘source’ line above in whichever file is
> appropriate (~/.bash_profile, ~/.profile, /etc/profile, etc.)
>

I did not express myself cleanly. What my problem was that 'source' is bash
specific, while we can use '.' in posix shells.


> On GuixSD this happens automatically but on a foreign distro users have
> to add the ‘source’ line somewhere.
>
> Does that make sense?
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
>
g_bor

>

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