Multiple paths in the .profile

[monetdb-team]

Date: 2016-04-19 22:34:27 +0200
From: @mlkersten
To: buildtools devs <>
Version: 11.21.19 (Jul2015-SP4)

Last updated: 2016-06-23 10:24:26 +0200

Comment 22062

Date: 2016-04-19 22:34:27 +0200
From: @mlkersten

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0
Build Identifier:

Using the MonetDB package installer on Mac expands the ~/.profile each time you install the package. Perhaps we should warn the user about this 'pollution'

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:

Set MonetDB path
export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin
export PATH=$PATH:/Users/mlkersten/monetdb//Darwin/bin
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/libexec/java_home

Set MonetDB path
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/monetdb/bin

Set MonetDB path
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/monetdb/bin

Comment 22063

Date: 2016-04-19 23:08:04 +0200
From: MonetDB Mercurial Repository <>

Changeset a93d4305f49b made by Sjoerd Mullender sjoerd@acm.org in the MonetDB repo, refers to this bug.

For complete details, see http//devmonetdborg/hg/MonetDB?cmd=changeset;node=a93d4305f49b

Changeset description:

Properly check whether the MonetDB bin directory is already in $PATH.
This should fix bug #3984.

Comment 22067

Date: 2016-04-20 10:23:12 +0200
From: @sjoerdmullender

Fixing it is infinitely better than warning people. ;-)