Re: Perfect Mac OS X Installation?

["George N. White III" <gnwiii@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Thomas A. Schmitz
<thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de> wrote:
>
> On Apr 4, 2009, at 11:35 AM, Markus Hubig wrote:
>
>> Hi @all,
>>
>> i've done a fresh install of ConTeXt Minimals on my Mac OS X box.
>> Now I like to put my setup steps into a small script so my brother can
>> use it. It wold be nice if someone can give me some comments ...
>> maybe I missed something, maybe I did something stupid!
>>
>> - Markus
>
> Your script is clever, but in my experience, you can simplify the process. I
> have a TeXLive install and the ConTeXt minimals on my OS X box. In order to
> use them, I have two configuration files. Here's the one for the minimals
> (which is named .minicontext):
>
> PATH="/Users/tas/context/tex/texmf-osx-intel/bin:$PATH"
> export PATH
> export TEXMFCACHE="/Users/tas/context/tex/texmf-cache"
> export TEXMFCNF="/Users/tas/context/tex/texmf/web2c"
> export
> TEXMF="{/Users/tas/texmf,/Users/tas/context/tex/texmf-project,/Users/tas/context/tex/texmf-fonts,/Users/tas/context/tex/texmf-local,/Users/tas/context/tex/texmf-context,/Users/tas/context/tex/texmf-extra,/Users/tas/context/tex/texmf}"
> export
> LUAINPUTS="{/Users/tas/context/tex/texmf-context/scripts/context/lua,/Users/tas/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base,/Users/tas/texmf/scripts/context/lua}"
>
> I simply run "source ~/.minicontext", and my system is set up. The syntax is
> for zsh; if you're running bash or (heaven forbid!) tcsh, you may have to
> adapt it slightly; and of course, adapt the path variables to your own
> needs.

There is a tool designed specifically for this sort of adjustment to
the environment,
called "environment modules":

<http://modules.sourceforge.net/>
<http://www.nersc.gov/nusers/resources/software/os/modules.html>

This was standard kit on SGI Irix -- now that we are replacing the SGI
workstations with
MacOSX at work I use the (experimental) tcl version.    The big
advantage of using
environment modules is that it reliably restores the default environment.

-- 
George N. White III <aa056@chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia
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