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From: Bernhard Walle <bernhard@bwalle.de>
To: ptxdist@pengutronix.de
Subject: Re: [ptxdist] [PATCH] ptxdist: Don't assume that we have a bashrc
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 09:43:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120321084337.GB5913@regiomontanus.bwalle.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F69941B.7020509@lespocky.de>

* Alexander Dahl <post@lespocky.de> [2012-03-21 09:40]:
> Am 21.03.2012 07:17, schrieb Bernhard Walle:
> >> I'm using zsh, not bash, but still have ~/.bashrc … what does this code
> >> try to do in the first place and how does this affect users of other shells?
> > 
> > It only avoids two error messages when running "ptxdist bash" when the
> > files are not present. You can also use bash and have no ~/.bashrc
> > although that might be seldom.
> 
> Okay, then let's rephrase this. From `ptxdist help` I got:
> 
>   bash                          enter a ptxdist environment bash shell
>   bash <cmd> [args...]          execute <cmd> in ptxdist environment
> 
> What is this environment useful for or what advantages has `ptxdist
> bash` over my own shell?

Well, I sometimes use it for debugging. For example you have the
selected toolchain automatically in $PATH.


Regards,
Bernhard

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      reply	other threads:[~2012-03-21  8:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-20 19:46 Bernhard Walle
2012-03-20 22:15 ` Alexander Dahl
2012-03-21  6:17   ` Bernhard Walle
2012-03-21  8:40     ` Alexander Dahl
2012-03-21  8:43       ` Bernhard Walle [this message]

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