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From: fcrary@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (Frank Crary)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help with a.out
Date: 20 Apr 1997 15:37:01 GMT
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
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In article <3355973C.429F@charlotte.infi.net>,
drdan <mdan@charlotte.infi.net> wrote:
>I am trying to write small programs in C++. I have been compiling with
>g++ and it gives me a file a.out I assume this is a executable.
>Although, when I type a.out I get an error message that says that
>command a.out is not found. I must be forgetting to do somthing simple,
>please help me.
I hit the same problem. Unix looks for executables in the directories
defined by the $PATH environment variable, and for some reason the
current directory is not part of the default $PATH in FreeBSD (or
at least not as of 2.1.5). You can fix that by editing your .cshrc file.
Originally, mine had a line reading
set path = (~/bin /bin /usr/{bin,games} /usr/local/bin /usr/X11R6/bin /sbin /u
sr/sbin )
by changing that to
set path = (. ~/bin /bin /usr/{bin,games} /usr/local/bin /usr/X11R6/bin /sbin /u
sr/sbin )
(with a . added), the machine looks for executables in all the normal
directories _and_ whatever directory I happen to be in at the moment.
You could also use the full path, rather than changing your .cshrc, but
that's a pain. In the process of debugging something, I really don't
want to be typing out, "/usr/home/fcrary/Orbital/a.out" dozens of
times.
Frank Crary
CU Boulder