From: John Johnson <johnatl@...>
Date: 2006-07-18T04:29:13+09:00
Subject: [Fwd: Re: Mac OSX Ruby Configuration Question]

 > On Jul 14, 2006, at 8:31 PM, Ryan Raaum wrote:

> Pathing works most of the time, but I had some problems with RadRails/
> Eclipse because it doesn't appear to honor pathing provided
> in .profile or .login.  Which prompted the linking solution.  It's a
> little ugly and might go away with future updates, but it was about
> all I had left for a few programs that ignored my personal path
> information.
> -Mat
>

You can change path info in /etc/profile to make it system-wide.
As for ~/.profile, I tried all the shells listed in /etc/shells, and none
of them ran the .profile I created as a test.

I don't see why UNIX like systems have to have so many bin (and other)
directories. Let's see, there is /bin, /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin,
/opt/local/bin, the same variants for sbin, plus executables in
/usr/libexec, /usr/local/libexec and (for shame) /etc.

Sheesh!

Thankfully someone invented the 'which' and 'whereis' commands.

Regards,
  JJ