I have 2 small problems that I think I should know the answers to, but I don't

The first is, if I create a /etc/profile, it doesn't run. What do I need to do to run it automatically?

And the second, I have installed Qt 3 in /usr/qt3. If a C program has #include <qt.h> or something, gcc doesn't look in /usr/qt3/include for it. There doesn't seem to be an include path environment variable, do I need to copy /usr/qt3/include's content to /usr/include?

Use Slackware's style:

/etc/profile is run on login

put these lines:

for i in /etc/rc.d/*.sh
do
. $i
done

and make a /etc/rc.d directory

then put scripts there, with names ending in .sh, as in qt3.sh . Do a

chmod 755 file

in every file in that directory.

Now you're done.

Looks like you need to create an /etc/rc.d/qt3.sh

containing:

#!/bin/sh
export QT3_DIR=/usr/lib/qt

I'm not sure, but this is the way you have to do things...

HTH,

vfs.

1) source the /etc/profile file in your ~/.bashrc and/or ~/.bash_profile file(s) by simply adding a line like this: source /etc/profile

Have a look at the bash man page - it will tell you exactly which files are read in which order, under which circumstances (depending on how bash is invoked, it will read different files).

2) To tell GCC to look in a directory like /usr/qt/include add an option to the gcc command line like this: gcc -I/usr/qt3/include <the rest here>

Note: there is no space between -I and /usr/qt3/include - it's all together.