"Kendrick" == Kendrick Vargas <kvarga01_at_fiu.edu> writes:
Kendrick> well, this can be a problem. Sun OS's (in my experience)
Kendrick> don't care what shell you specify for your .xinitrc or
Kendrick> .xsession, Solaris will always process it as a /bin/sh
Kendrick> script. Besides, you can set environment variables inside a
Kendrick> shell script. It's not hard to add a line like
Kendrick> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
Kendrick> or something like that, but even doing this, it doesn't
Kendrick> work...
...probably because it's not valid Bourne Shell.
export VAR=value
only works in ksh (and zsh and bash)
if it's plain sh you have to do
VAR=value
...
export VAR VAR2 VAR3
I'm quite sure I used to have Solaris running my .xinitrc as a ksh
script, but that was over 6 months ago, in a previous life...
Enjoy,
Andrew
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Received on Wed May 14 1997 - 16:47:04 BST