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A quick shell include for setting paths for programs installed in non-traditional locations

June 28, 2006 - 9:34am — Samat Jain

A page in the Beyond Linux from Scratch manual describes environment variables that should be set when installing software in a non-traditional location (e.g. your home directory).

I've written a sh/bash include that can be included from .bashrc to set these variables, as well as PYTHON_PATH for separately installed Python libraries:

#!/bin/bash

PREFIX=$HOME/usr

export PATH="$PREFIX/bin:$PATH"
export PYTHONPATH="$PREFIX/lib/python2.4/site-packages:$PYTHON_PATH"
export MANPATH="$PREFIX/man:$MANPATH"
export INFOPATH="$PREFIX/info:$INFOPATH"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$PREFIX/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$PREFIX/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH"
export CPPFLAGS="-I$PREFIX/includes $CPPFLAGS"
export LDFLAGS="-L$PREFIX/lib $LDFLAGS"

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