Re: gfortran: OK, I quit, you win

From: Pierre Asselin (pa_at_see.signature.invalid)
Date: 01/19/05 

Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 16:13:21 +0000 (UTC)

Gordon Sande <g.sande@worldnet.att.net> wrote:

> I seem to recall OKing a request to add additional code to a startup
> file (.profile or whatever) so that PATH would pick up newly installed
> software. That is what both /usr/local/ and the user modifiable .profile
> are for.

The gfortran installer should do that only if OSX has an established
convention on how to modify the system profile without stepping on
other installer's toes --or the administrator's toes. I would be
especially weary of an installer that thinks it knows how to edit
*user* profiles.

> There is the bother that Apple changed the default shell from
> tcsh in 10.2 to bash in 10.3 so the name of .profile keeps changing.

All the more reason to be cautious.

Disclaimer: I don't have a mac, so the above is extrapolated
from various unixoid boxes. 

-- 
pa at panix dot com

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