[haiku-development] Re: Building on Mac OS X .bash_profile

  • From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:59:39 +0100 CET

"Zenja Solaja" <solaja@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> *Bash Startup Files
> **When a "login shell" starts up, it reads the file "/etc/profile" 
> and then
> "~/.bash_profile" or "~/.bash_login" or "~/.profile" (whichever one 
> exists -
> it only reads one of these, checking for them in the order 
> mentioned).*
> 
> Way to go Apple!!!  Falling into the Linux trap of offerring 
> duplicate
> configuration files, some of which conflict with each other.  
> Thankfully,
> Haiku wont follow this nasty trend ...

That's just how bash works. In case you missed it, we're using bash as 
well.

Bye,
   Axel.


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