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Re: Possible problem with GDL environment variables under Fedora 5 [message #48299]

Mon, 10 April 2006 10:46

cgguido
Messages: 195
Registered: August 2005

Senior Member

I think you might also need to set an environment variable. In
~/.bashrc add the following lines:

IDL_STARTUP='path to a file similar to that suggested by Andy'

and / or

GDL_STARTUP='path to a file similar to that suggested by Andy'

Let us know how it goes...

Gianguido

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Re: Possible problem with GDL environment variables under Fedora 5 [message #48302 is a reply to message #48299]

Mon, 10 April 2006 02:55

Andy Heaps
Messages: 22
Registered: March 2006

Junior Member

Hello idlwizard-1,
try creating a file
called .gdlrc in your home directory and then
try gdl again. You can then set your path
and other variables with in the .gdlrc file
as you would in your .idlrc file.

;gdlrc file
!PATH=!PATH+'~/idl_code'
print,'Code library included'

Cheers
Andy

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Re: Possible problem with GDL environment variables under Fedora 5 [message #48346 is a reply to message #48299]

Thu, 13 April 2006 16:25

idlwizard-1@yahoo.com is currently offline

idlwizard-1@yahoo.com
Messages: 11
Registered: December 2005

Junior Member

No, those two things weren't enough. I still get

'GDL_STARTUP'/'IDL_STARTUP' environment variables both not set.
No startup file read.

I also tried
csh
set IDL_STARTUP /home/myself/src
set GDL_STARTUP /home/myself/src

(where /home/myself/src is the equivalent of your ~/idl_code) and got
the same error.

But

csh
setenv IDL_STARTUP /home/myself/src
setenv GDL_STARTUP /home/myself/src

and that got rid of the error.

(I don't know enough about bash to do the equivalent in bash.)

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Re: Possible problem with GDL environment variables under Fedora 5 [message #48440 is a reply to message #48346]

Fri, 14 April 2006 07:18

cgguido
Messages: 195
Registered: August 2005

Senior Member

What shell do you use regularly?

type echo $SHELL to find out.

Gianguido

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