Starting program with ./

AndyMCR · 07-16-2005, 02:30 PM

Hi,

I've just re-installed Slack & got Enlightenment running. However, when I go to /usr/local/e17/bin I cannot exec a file by just typing evidence (as I did on my last install) , I now have to use ./evidence

Is there an easy fix, I've got a feeling it may be a PATH problem.

Any help appreciated

Andy

MS3FGX · 07-16-2005, 02:33 PM

Well, first of all, are you running as root? The current directory is not in root's PATH for security reasons.

MS3FGX · 07-16-2005, 02:35 PM

If you are running as a normal user, you can add ./ to the path by creating the file ".bash_profile" in your home directory (if it doesn't already exist) and putting the following line into it:

export PATH=$PATH:./

AndyMCR · 07-16-2005, 02:41 PM

Yep, that solved it, thank you very much.

Andy

ringwraith · 07-16-2005, 03:53 PM

Whenever I have the executable stored in an odd location like that, I normally put a symlink to it in /usr/local/bin so that I can call it from anywhere.

AndyMCR · 07-16-2005, 05:31 PM

How do I create a symlink?

I issued these commands in the build script:

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/e17/bin"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/e17/lib"

but it doesn't seem to work for my next login (i.e the $PATH isn't updated). Is there a file where these are stored?

Andy

Tinkster · 07-16-2005, 05:57 PM

man ln
Basically it's
ln -s /path/to/real/thing /path/to/dir/in/$PATH/.