[Swarm-Support] Re: Swarm on the MAC - Solved!

[Bill Northcott]

> Thanks again for the help.  I have found the source of the problem, and 
it
> wasn't that the files were missing.  The problem had to do with the 
Apple
> Terminal application and the handling of the .bashrc files.  I was 
unaware
> that the Apple Terminal (which I do most of my work in) reads the 
.profile
> file in my home directory. 

That sort of thing has nothing to do with the Terminal.app which only 
provides a character based display.
It is all part of the behaviour of the shell (in your case bash).  For 
full details, see 'man bash'.

>So during the compiling and the dynamic linking,
> the environmental variables were set correctly in my .bashrc file, but 
not
> getting read!  I have it all worked out now for working with and making
> files in terminal, and I can execute the swarm 2.1.1 apps like heatbugs 
and
> mousetrap without any problem in X11.  Thank you again for your help, 
and
> sorry to have bothered you with newbie UNIX questions.  I look forward 
to
> any further developments you have for Swarm on the Mac!

Feel free to ask.  There are no stupid questions, only stupid people who 
don't ask!

Bill Northoctt

> Respectfully,

> Eric Stewart
> address@hidden
> http://www.humboldt.edu/~ecomodel