[26868] in Athena Bugs
linux 9.4.26: attachandrun manpage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Omari S Stephens)
Fri Jun 23 19:56:34 2006
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Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:55:43 -0400
From: Omari S Stephens <xsdg@mit.edu>
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The manpage for attachandrun should mention that it recognizes the
environment variables ATHENA_SYS and ATHENA_SYS_COMPAT, and that one or
both of these _must_ be set properly for the program to function correctly.
both unset:
$attachandrun gimp-2.0 gimp-2.0 gimp-2.0
attachandrun: can't find a binary directory in /mit/gimp-2.0
$env ATHENA_SYS=i386_rhel3 attachandrun gimp-2.0 gimp-2.0 gimp-2.0
(program runs successfully)
$env ATHENA_SYS=i386_rhel4 attachandrun gimp-2.0 gimp-2.0 gimp-2.0
attachandrun: can't find a binary directory in /mit/gimp-2.0
$env ATHENA_SYS=i386_rhel4 ATHENA_SYS_COMPAT=i386_rhel3 attachandrun
gimp-2.0 gimp-2.0 gimp-2.0
(program runs successfully)
--xsdg
