setenv... where is it??

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 23:11 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Ric Moore wrote:
> > 
> > [root at iam  rpm -q glibc-devel
> > glibc-devel-2.4-8
> > 
> > Got it already... yum told me it had nothing to do when I tried
> > installing it like that. So I tried this:
> > [root at iam rpm -q --whatprovides setenv
> > no package provides setenv
> > 
> > Jeez! It really seems to be missing, but locate finds a pile of
> > documentation for it installed. Beats the hell outa me. If the doc gets
> > installed, shouldn't the programs be installed too?? Must be a bug or an
> > omission. I would like to know about this. :) Ric 
> > 
> Strange, I always though setenv was a built-in function of the C
> shells.
You are mixing up setenv(3) (c.f. man 3 setenv) with csh's setenv.

csh's setenv is csh's interface to setenv(3), which is implemented into
libc.

Ralf