From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: _bashrc somewhere else?
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 11:09:12 +0100
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Hello.

deckerben wrote:
> 
> "Richard Dawe" <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk> wrote in message
> news:3D2F5A9A DOT 61162235 AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk...
> 
> > "When bash is started non-interactively,  to  run  a  shell
> > script, for example, it looks for the variable BASH_ENV in
> > the environment, expands its value if  it  appears  there,
> > and  uses the expanded value as the name of a file to read
> > and execute.  Bash behaves as  if  the  following  command
> > were executed:
> >        if [ -n "$BASH_ENV" ]; then . "$BASH_ENV"; fi
> > but  the  value of the PATH variable is not used to search
> > for the file name."
> 
> I did read that.
> 
> So what I understood from that is that I should define %BASH_ENV% like
> %DJGPP% in the DOS environment. That is what what I think I have been trying
> to do. What could be wrong with:
> 
> set BASH_ENV=D:\user\DJGPP\etc\profile
> 
> ...when D:\user\DJGPP\etc\profile is exactly the same file sas the
> %HOME%\_bashrc, which works for me? Maybe I misunderstood the man page?

Are you using bash interactively? If so, BASH_ENV is not used. BASH_ENV will
only be used, if you're running bash non-interactively - e.g.: if you're
running a script.

Incidentally it looks like my news client / news server truncated my message.
Here's what I wrote in the rest of my message:

config.site has nothing to do with bash. It is used by autoconf, to get the
default value for its tests, e.g.: what command should be used to create
symlinks. config.site comes with bash, because bash used to be updated more
frequently than autoconf (you need bash for autoconf), so it was a good way to
give people the latest config.site. With autoconf 2.50, it comes with
autoconf.

I don't know how to achieve what you want. Can't you just source the file you
want in your _bashrc? E.g.:

    source ${DJDIR}/etc/profile

I did some testing and bash didn't seem to source ${DJDIR}/etc/profile
automatically, before sourcing ~/_bashrc. I didn't check that it sources
/etc/profile, though.

Regards,

-- 
Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]