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Subject: Re:[Openmcl-devel] Openmcl script: Request for adding external
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From: "Frank G=?ISO-8859-1?B?9g==?=nninger,
	PRION Consulting Services AG" <fgoenninger@prion.de>
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Pascal,

Am 19.11.2004 19:17 Uhr schrieb "Pascal J.Bourguignon" unter
<pjb@informatimago.com>:

> Frank G=F6nninger,  PRION Consulting Services AG writes:
>> I have to make sure that another shell script gets sourced from within t=
he
>> openmcl script. This is due to the fact that the other script (it being =
part
>> of a library I have to load within OpenMCL: ImageMagick - but the same t=
hing
>> is true for others as well) sets some environment variables that have to=
 be
>> set when loading the external shared library (.dylib) (done via UFFI).
>=20
> This is usually done this way:
>=20
> cat > my-entry-point <<EOF
> #!/bin/bash
> . whatever-rc-file-i-must-source
> . some-more
> exec openmcl $@
> EOF
> chmod 755 my-entry-point
> ./my-entry-point

Well, yes, (shaking my head : have done that sort of stuff many times and I
am wondering why that simple solution didn't come to mind...) ;-)
>=20
>=20
> There's no reason to patch distributed programs for such a futil purpose

Ok, ok, understood. Please excuse me having bothered you, Sir.

Frank


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