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Issue with adding gnu bins to the path on macOS in the contributors development guide #8391

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gawbul opened this issue Mar 21, 2025 · 3 comments · May be fixed by #8392
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Issue with adding gnu bins to the path on macOS in the contributors development guide #8391

gawbul opened this issue Mar 21, 2025 · 3 comments · May be fixed by #8392
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gawbul commented Mar 21, 2025 •
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As part of the contributors/devel/development.md file we are told to add the following to our ~/.bashrc:

GNUBINS="$(find `brew --prefix`/opt -type d -follow -name gnubin -print)"

for bindir in ${GNUBINS[@]}
do
  export PATH=$bindir:$PATH
done

export PATH

However, this results in the following in the $PATH variable on my machine:

PATH=/opt/homebrew/opt/libtool/libexec/gnubin
/opt/homebrew/opt/coreutils/libexec/gnubin
/opt/homebrew/opt/gnu-tar/libexec/gnubin
/opt/homebrew/opt/ed/libexec/gnubin
/opt/homebrew/opt/grep/libexec/gnubin
/opt/homebrew/opt/gnu-sed/libexec/gnubin
/opt/homebrew/opt/gsed/libexec/gnubin
/opt/homebrew/opt/gawk/libexec/gnubin
/opt/homebrew/opt/make/libexec/gnubin
/opt/homebrew/opt/findutils/libexec/gnubin:/Users/gawbul/.local/share/mise/installs/python/3.13.2/bin:/opt/homebrew/share/google-cloud-sdk/bin:/opt/homebrew/opt/mise/bin:/opt/homebrew/opt/openjdk/bin:/opt/homebrew/opt/[email protected]/bin:/Users/gawbul/src/ensembl-git-tools/bin:/Users/gawbul/perl5/bin:/opt/homebrew/Cellar/zplug/2.4.2/bin:/opt/homebrew/bin:/opt/homebrew/sbin:/Users/gawbul/.pyenv/shims:/usr/local/bin:/System/Cryptexes/App/usr/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/local/bin:/var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/bin:/var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/appleinternal/bin:/opt/X11/bin:/Library/Apple/usr/bin:/usr/local/MacGPG2/bin:/Applications/Wireshark.app/Contents/MacOS:/Applications/Little Snitch.app/Contents/Components:/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/Current/Commands:/Applications/Ghostty.app/Contents/MacOS:/Users/gawbul/Library/Application Support/Coursier/bin:/Users/gawbul/go/bin:/opt/homebrew/opt/go/libexec/bin:/Users/gawbul/.local/bin

Note that the path for each utility is on a separate line and is not joined by the colon delimiter.
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gawbul commented Mar 21, 2025

/sig docs

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gawbul commented Mar 21, 2025

It's also worth noting that zsh is the default shell on macOS now, so it should really reference ~/.zshrc.
I'll also push that change.

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gawbul commented Mar 21, 2025

/sig contributor-experience

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