Bash Instrcution source dosen't work

[HeeH]

Hello everyone~!

Now I have a urgent porblem: I have tried to install ifort( intel fortran compiler ) on my laptop with mint 14. After the install, I runned the instruction
" source /opt/intel/composer_xe_2013.2.146/bin/compilervars.sh intel64 "
to set the enviroment variables. In the same shell, it worked. But when i quited the shell window and created another shell window to run ifort, the system told me that he can not find instruction ifort.
I have tried to run shell as superuser, but that do not change the enviroment variables either: New window can not run ifort.
I think that is a dirty joker to users and make me a little angry.
Can anyone tell me how to solve that problem? thanks very much!

[catweazel]

http://software.intel.com/en-us/forum/

[HeeH]

http://software.intel.com/en-us/forum/

I doubt that it is not the problem of Intel: The ifort ran well but i can not modify the enviroment variables. Is there anyway that I can run "source" in shell truely as superuser?

[karlchen]

Hello, HeeH.

After the install, I runned the instruction
" source /opt/intel/composer_xe_2013.2.146/bin/compilervars.sh intel64 "
to set the enviroment variables. In the same shell, it worked. But when i quited the shell window and created another shell window to run ifort, the system told me that he can not find instruction ifort.

This suggests that you will have to put the commandline

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 source /opt/intel/composer_xe_2013.2.146/bin/compilervars.sh intel64

into your personal .bashrc file.

Karl

[bjornmu]

Environment variables are not "global", they only have effect within the shell that you set them. So it's as expected that they don't work when you open another shell. But if you put this in your .bashrc as suggested, it will be run whenever you start a new shell.

[HeeH]

Hello, HeeH.

After the install, I runned the instruction
" source /opt/intel/composer_xe_2013.2.146/bin/compilervars.sh intel64 "
to set the enviroment variables. In the same shell, it worked. But when i quited the shell window and created another shell window to run ifort, the system told me that he can not find instruction ifort.

This suggests that you will have to put the commandline

Code: Select all

 source /opt/intel/composer_xe_2013.2.146/bin/compilervars.sh intel64

into your personal .bashrc file.

Karl

Thanks very much! It works! Now I am compiling my project of fortran for my course. Thank you for your help!

[HeeH]

Environment variables are not "global", they only have effect within the shell that you set them. So it's as expected that they don't work when you open another shell. But if you put this in your .bashrc as suggested, it will be run whenever you start a new shell.

Thanks very much! Now I begin to understand how the Linux deals with environment variables: it is different from the windows. Thank you for your help!

[karlchen]

Hello, HeeH.
You're welcome.
Karl

[cfaj]

Environment variables are not "global", they only have effect within the shell that you set them. So it's as expected that they don't work when you open another shell. But if you put this in your .bashrc as suggested, it will be run whenever you start a new shell.

Environment variables, i.e. those that are exported, are available to all descendants shells.

Note that the source command is specific to bash, and not available in sh (which is dash on Debian-based systems); use '. scriptname' instead.