Bug 514256 - [terminal] On Mac OSX, the default shell for the Terminal should be bash --login
Summary: [terminal] On Mac OSX, the default shell for the Terminal should be bash --login
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: CDT
Classification: Tools
Component: terminal (show other bugs)
Version: Next   Edit
Hardware: PC Mac OS X
: P2 major (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Project Inbox CLA
QA Contact: Jonah Graham CLA
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: 517445 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2017-03-27 10:32 EDT by Martin Oberhuber CLA
Modified: 2020-09-04 15:11 EDT (History)
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Description Martin Oberhuber CLA 2017-03-27 10:32:13 EDT
We've had 2 questions already on Marketplace due to this glitch:
https://marketplace.eclipse.org/comment/4441#comment-4441

It looks like without "--login", the shell doesn't pick up system paths from /etc/paths on OSX. And as a result, programs that work on a normal terminal don't work on Eclipse.

OSX should configure "--login" by default if $SHELL is bash at least.
Comment 1 Martin Oberhuber CLA 2017-05-30 12:55:59 EDT
*** Bug 517445 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Jonah Graham CLA 2020-05-01 10:09:51 EDT
The Terminal component of the Eclipse Ecosystem has a new home. The Terminal is now part of the Eclipse CDT project[1].

This change means a new Git repo[2], P2 site[3] and Bugzilla component. The terminal will continue to be delivered as part of the quarterly Simultaneous Release of Eclipse as well.

The marketplace entry[4] had not been updated in a few years. It will once again install the latest release of the terminal on the latest release of the whole IDE (currently 2020-03).

If this bug is no longer relevant, please feel free to comment or close the bug. If you can confirm if this issues still occurs in the latest release please do let me know in a comment.

[1] https://wiki.eclipse.org/CDT/User/NewIn911
[2] https://git.eclipse.org/c/cdt/org.eclipse.cdt.git (in the terminal directory)
[3] current release is 9.11 - P2 site https://download.eclipse.org/tools/cdt/releases/9.11/
[4] https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/tm-terminal

(This comment was added to all open terminal bugs along with changing the Product/component pair to CDT/terminal.)