[Radiance-general] First Timer: HELP ON RADIANCE INSTALLATION

[Thomas Bleicher]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Greg Ward <gregoryjward at gmail.com> wrote:

> Wow, Thomas -- those are great directions for OSX.  I learned a new trick
> from them, myself.  I had nevr seen the plist stuff for Terminal.app.
>

Apparently it's only useful for Terminal.app. Applications that are started
via Finder (or the Dock) do not get this information. If you have a tool you
can use to verify this (a proper OS X *.app with some form of command line)
you can try and set a few environment variables and see if they are present
in the app.

I have to confess that I had to google for the the right place as well. All
my shell config files didn't contain the $PATH extension for Radiance so I
had to look somewhere else. I remembered the *.plist from way back when I
set up my first Mac. I must have done it again after I upgraded to 10.6,
though. I have my binaries in /usr/local and have no need for RAYPATH, but I
didn't want to expose Julitta to the file system innards of OS X.

I just wanted to add a note that Julitta may need to install the X11 and
> Developer Tools from the optional packages on her installation disks.  The
> system doesn't come with them installed by default.
>


I think X is standard now (since 10.5 or 10.6) and the dev tools shouldn't
be required.

Regards,
Thomas
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