Re: octave & octave-forge install instructions for Mac OS X 10.4.x

[Marius Schamschula]

Shai,

Of course Mac OS X/Darwin supports symbolic links. However, .bashrc and 
.bash_profile contain different commands. Thus, one should merge their 
contents before removing either file. I.e.

cat < .bash_profile >> .bashrc

and then edit to comment out/remove

if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
        . ~/.bashrc
fi

to prevent a circular dependancy.

On Jul 6, 2005, at 2:07 AM, Shai Ayal wrote:

> I am unsure if OSX supports links, but if it does than both of you 
> would probably be better off by linking .bash_profile to .bashrc, this 
> way would ensure that these files are identical and you won't have to 
> remember to update them both.  i.e.
>
> rm .bash_profile
> ln -s .bashrc .bash_profile
>
> Shai
>
> Henry F. Mollet wrote:
> > Thanks. Now it works in X11/xterm.
> > Henry
> > henry-f-mollets-emac:~ hfm$ cat .bash_profile
> > PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
> > export PATH
> > export GNUTERM=aqua
> > export DISPLAY=:0.0
> > henry-f-mollets-emac:~ hfm$ pico .bashrc
> > # copy/paste above and save with help of pico editior
> > henry-f-mollets-emac:~ hfm$ cat .bashrc
> > PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
> > export PATH
> > export GNUTERM=aqua
> > export DISPLAY=:0.0
> > on 7/4/05 8:23 PM, Joe Koski at address@hidden wrote:
> > > Henry, Marius,
> > >
> > > By accident I discovered that Apple's X11 seems to use .bashrc, not
> > > .bash_profile, so I just duplicate any necessary path changes, etc., 
> > > there.
> > > It works the same for me for both xterm and rxvt.
> > >
> > > I haven't tried emacs yet. Real UNIX people seem to prefer emacs to 
> > > xterm to
> > > rxvt. I guess I'm not a true UNIX geek yet.
> > >
> > > Joe
> > >
> > >
> > > on 7/4/05 8:59 PM, Henry F. Mollet at address@hidden wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > henry-f-mollets-emac:~ hfm$ gnuplot
> > > > bash: gnuplot: command not found
> > > > henry-f-mollets-emac:~ hfm$ bash --login
> > > > henry-f-mollets-emac:~ hfm$ gnuplot
> > > >
> > > >        G N U P L O T
> > > >        Version 4.0 patchlevel 0
> > > >
> > > > henry-f-mollets-emac:~ hfm$ export
> > > > declare -x DISPLAY=":0.0"
> > > > declare -x HOME="/Users/hfm"
> > > > declare -x LOGNAME="hfm"
> > > > declare -x MANPATH="/usr/man:/usr/X11R6/man"
> > > > declare -x OLDPWD
> > > > declare -x PATH="/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin"
> > > > declare -x PWD="/Users/hfm"
> > > > declare -x SECURITYSESSIONID="b86380"
> > > > declare -x SHELL="/bin/bash"
> > > > declare -x SHLVL="2"
> > > > declare -x TERM="xterm"
> > > > declare -x USER="hfm"
> > > > declare -x WINDOWID="6291470"
> > > > declare -x __CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING="0x1F5:0:0"
> > > > henry-f-mollets-emac:~ hfm$
> > > >
> > > > Joe Koski is using the rxvt X11 terminal which probably does not 
> > > > have this
> > > > odd behavior of having to force things to be read in. He also said 
> > > > that it
> > > > has the scroll bar on the right and that the terminal behaves more 
> > > > like
> > > > expected and he built it from source.
> > > >
> > > > For setting scroll bar etc. on Apple's xterm see
> > > > http://www.abbeyworkshop.com/howto/macosx/x11Term/
> > > >
> > > > Thanks, Henry
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > on 7/3/05 12:15 PM, Marius Schamschula at address@hidden 
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Henry,
> > > > > This is a known issue with Apple's xterm. By default it seems not 
> > > > > to
> > > > > read your .bash_proflie. I usually do a
> > > > >
> > > > > bash --login
> > > > >
> > > > > to force things to be read in.
> > > > >
> > > > > Marius
> > > > > --
> > > > > Marius Schamschula                               Webmaster
> > > > >
> > > > >         The Huntsville Macintosh Users Group
> > > > >                     www.hmug.org
> > > > >
> > > > > webmaster at hmug dot org    marius at schamschula dot com
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On Jul 2, 2005, at 1:00 PM, Henry F. Mollet wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > > I used X11 and tried to run octave and gnuplot in the X11/xterm
> > > > > > terminal.
> > > > > > Octave worked but would not plot because it now could not find
> > > > > > gnuplot. Then
> > > > > > I opened gnuplot and I could do a plot.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I must also have to set the path someplace for both octave and 
> > > > > > gnuplot
> > > > > > because I had to use /urs/local/bin/octave or gnuplot to open 
> > > > > > these
> > > > > > applications in the xterm terminal.
> > > > > > Henry
>
> --
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