[issue7742] please avoid 'which' in Modules/ld_so_aix

[Sridhar Ratnakumar]

Sridhar Ratnakumar <sridharr at activestate.com> added the comment:

On 2010-07-22, at 11:56 AM, Stefan Krah wrote:

> 
> Stefan Krah <stefan-usenet at bytereef.org> added the comment:
> 
> I'm not sure this should be changed:
> 
>  1) Why is .cshrc sourced? It should only get sourced for a login
>     shell.

/usr/bin/which is a csh script on our AIX machine too:

bash-2.04$ head -n 5 /usr/bin/which
#!/usr/bin/csh -f
set prompt = "% "
if ( -f ~/.cshrc) then
        source ~/.cshrc
endif

>  2) If the user sets a PATH that excludes the compiler, then `which`
>     will also not find the compiler on other systems (like Linux).
>     Why would anyone set a PATH that excludes the compiler?
> 
> 
> Sridhar, has this ever been a problem for you on AIX?

Not at all, we use bash as the default shell.

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