make installkernel help required. (ANSWER... sort of)

[Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.]

Phil Payne wrote:

>On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 15:18, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
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>>On 2004-09-22 13:44, Phil Payne <phil at sal-n-phil.net> wrote:
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>>>On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 13:15, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
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>>>>Weird.  Everything seems ok but you seem to be bumping on a problem
>>>>related to the shell in use :-/
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>>>Weirder... installed Eterm... and I can installkernel & install ports
>>>fine. So looks like its only aterm & xterm that have given me a problem.
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>>Hmmm. What's your login shell?  Is it really invoked as a "login shell"
>>by your xterms/aterms (i.e. with the -ls option of xterm)?
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>I use /bin/tcsh. It's not invoked by any aterm/xterm options, its just
>set in /etc/passwd. Is that what you meant?
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>Phil.
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That's the first part.  xterm doesn't {by default} set up your shell
as a "login" shell ... therefore it doesn't get certain environment
variables, and probably there are a few other things I don't know
about ...

A simple test:  try typing "logout" to exit your xterm.  If it responds
"not a login shell", then, well, it's not.  Starting xterm with -ls should
help with the problem, as Giorgos stated.

Now, to further support the theory Giorgos has here, Eterm *does*
seem to use its "-l" option by default, so when using Eterm the terminal
would invoke tcsh as a login shell ... and things should work.

HTH,

Kevin Kinsey