Environment variables... where should they go?

[krupa]

Here's the situation:

I'm running Debian 2.2r3, with enlightenment.

Recently I compiled the qt libraries with the idea of attempting to compile KDE afterward. *When I went to compile the KDE part, it said I should add the path to QT (in this case, /usr/local/qt) in .profile. *

All the qt/kde paths are in my .profile file for root, and in .bash_profile for my regular user login. *However, when I su to root those variables don't show up anywhere.

This is causing a problem when I try to set up a KDE application project using KDevelop. *It runs a configure script to make sure you have everything you need. *However, it keeps telling me that the qt version isn't high enough.

Is there another file I have to put these paths for when I su to root?

Thanks in advance.

[pbharris]

do you do a su - ?

[krupa]

No. *I put Kdevelop on an enlightenment menu and run it from there. *

When I do an su and type

echo $PATH

nothing shows up.

[civ1492]

look at /etc/profile it should look like this

export MINICOM="-c on"
export MANPATH=/usr/local/man:/usr/man:/usr/X11R6/man
export HOSTNAME="`cat /etc/HOSTNAME`"
export LESSOPEN="|lesspipe.sh %s"
export LESS="-M"
export MOZILLA_HOME=/usr/lib/netscape
export LFS="/mnt/lfs"

# Set the default system $PATH:
PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/opt/openoffice/pro
gram:/opt/kde/bin:/usr/local/mozilla/"

# For root users, ensure that /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin, and /sbin are in
# the $PATH. Some means of connection don't add these by default (sshd comes
# to mind).
if [ "`id -u`" = "0" ]; then
 echo $PATH | grep /usr/local/sbin 1> /dev/null 2> /dev/null
 if [ ! $? = 0 ]; then
  PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:$PATH
 fi
fi

# For non-root users, add the current directory to the search path:
if [ ! "`id -u`" = "0" ]; then
 PATH="$PATH:."
fi

this is just the part where the paths get exported .. I think you should get the idea .. else just post any questions

hth,
chb

[kenshi]

Like pbharris pointed out, you need to do a "su -" or else you don't attain root's environment settings.

[civ1492]

Like pbharris pointed out, you need to do a "su -" or else you don't attain root's environment settings.

nice that "-" .. at first i didnt notice that there was a minus before the su when pbharris posted it .. :-/