[Xastir] Re: Stupid question du jour

Wes Johnston wes at johnston.net
Tue Sep 30 20:41:15 EDT 2003


The slant is forward slant.... /usr  in .profile and in bat file...

This is slowly coming to me.... is there a "master" profile ?  I seem to 
recall having to put magick home in some other profile file somewhere.......
Wes


At 03:23 PM 9/30/2003, James Cour wrote:
>Curt,
>
>I think that is his question.  He said he has it set in both the .profile
>and the batch file.  Wes, which way is the slant pointing in your .profile?
>
>Jim
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Curt Mills, WE7U" <hacker at tc.fluke.com>
>To: <wes at johnston.net>
>Cc: <xastir at xastir.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 1:18 PM
>Subject: [Xastir] Re: Stupid question du jour
>
>
> > On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 wes at johnston.net wrote:
> >
> > > I'm compiling xastir from CVS, got Curt's IM5.5.3 from his website and
>copied
> > > the files into /usr as instructed.  xastir finds IM when running the
> > > ./configure, but not when it's time to display a GIF of JPG image.  I
>think
> > > it's a path problem... but I've SET MAGICK_HOME=/usr ... My install in
>on
> > > cygwin w/ winXP.  I've set magick_home in .profile , and in a bat file
>which I
> > > can run from windows....
> > >
> > > ******************************************
> > > @echo off
> > > SET DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
> > > SET MAGICK_HOME=/usr
> > > SET CYGWIN_ROOT=\cygwin
> > > SET PATH=.;%CYGWIN_ROOT%\bin;%CYGWIN_ROOT%\usr\X11R6\bin;%PATH%
> >
> > I think the problem here is that you're thinking in Windows/DOS
> > terms and not Cygwin/Unix terms.
> >
> > You need to set MAGICK_HOME for the Unix stuff, not for DOS/Windows.
> >
> > The README.win32 explains where to add it, which is your .profile
> > file, not a batch script.  It needs to take effect inside the BASH
> > shell.  Make sense?
> >
> > --
> > Curt Mills, WE7U                    hacker_NO_SPAM_ at tc.fluke.com
> > Senior Methods Engineer/SysAdmin
> > "Lotto:    A tax on people who are bad at math!"
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> >
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