Re: ver. 2.11.56 problems

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

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Am Dienstag, 19. August 2008 schrieb Patrick McCarty:
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 05:04:52PM +0200, James E. Bailey wrote:
> > You need to add the folder that lilypond is in to your $PATH. Then,
> > linux will know to look in that folder as well for executables,
> > regardless of which directory you're actually in. Apparently on linux,
> > according to carl, you add to your /home/tomc/~.bashrc:
> > PATH=/home/tomc/bin:$PATH
> > export PATH
>
> I have tried adding these lines to ~/.bashrc in the past, too, but it
> hasn't worked for me.  Instead I put this is my ~/.bash_profile

The login sequence for login shells and normal shells is a bit different:
At login ~/.bash_profile is sourced (i.e. executed), but not ~/.bashrc... 
That's the reason why e.g. Debian's default ~/.bash_profile contains:

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

This will also execute the .bashrc during login and you can savely place your 
customization into .bashrc (which will be executed for every 
shell, .bash_profile will not in general..).

> PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
> and it works for me (after logging out and logging back in).

I would rather do
       export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
which makes the shell look in ~/bin before it looks in default locations 
like /usr/bin or /bin... Otherwise you'll automatically run the lilypond 
version from /usr/bin/ and not your self-compiled version.

Cheers,
Reinhold
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