diff --git a/cfg/spirou/compilers.bashrc b/cfg/spirou/compilers.bashrc
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+# Intel compiler and/or TBB/MKL 
+#
+# EXPLANATIONS [RB]:
+# In practise, the call to "compilervars.sh" or ("mklvars.sh", etc) sets PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
+# If we want these variables to be set system-wide, it should be run in .profile
+#  
+# BUT
+#  1. the gnome display manager unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+#
+#  2. if the login shell is "dash", the script cannot be called 
+#     (we cannot add an extra argument to a sourced script with dash). 
+# THEN
+# => we call the scripts in both places (.bashrc & .profile)
+# => the env is cleaned in "loop.sh", removing duplicates if the .profile was actually read by bash
+#
+# SPECIAL CASE: "at" job
+# => the environment is OK and kept, but "LD_LIBRARY_PATH" is set to nothing by "at"
+# => the .profile is then rerun manually in our scripts (with bash)
+#    should we run also .bashrc as LD_LIBRARY_PATH should be set here on systems with gnome? 
+# => duplicates are finally removed by loop.sh
+
+if [ -d /opt/intel ] ; then
+    . /opt/intel/mkl/bin/mklvars.sh intel64
+    . /opt/intel/tbb/bin/tbbvars.sh intel64
+fi
diff --git a/cfg/spirou/compilers.profile b/cfg/spirou/compilers.profile
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/cfg/spirou/compilers.profile
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+# Intel compiler and/or TBB/MKL 
+#
+# EXPLANATIONS [RB]:
+# In practise, the call to "compilervars.sh" or ("mklvars.sh", etc) sets PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
+# If we want these variables to be set system-wide, it should be run in .profile
+#  
+# BUT
+#  1. the gnome display manager unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+#
+#  2. if the login shell is "dash", the script cannot be called 
+#     (we cannot add an extra argument to a sourced script with dash). 
+# THEN
+# => we call the scripts in both places (.bashrc & .profile)
+# => the env is cleaned in "loop.sh", removing duplicates if the .profile was actually read by bash
+#
+# SPECIAL CASE: "at" job
+# => the environment is OK and kept, but "LD_LIBRARY_PATH" is set to nothing by "at"
+# => the .profile is then rerun manually in our scripts (with bash)
+#    should we run also .bashrc as LD_LIBRARY_PATH should be set here on systems with gnome? 
+# => duplicates are finally removed by loop.sh
+
+if [ -n "$BASH_VERSION" ]; then
+    if [ -d /opt/intel ] ; then
+        . /opt/intel/mkl/bin/mklvars.sh intel64
+        . /opt/intel/tbb/bin/tbbvars.sh intel64
+    fi
+fi
diff --git a/cfg/spirou/misc.bashrc b/cfg/spirou/misc.bashrc
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+++ b/cfg/spirou/misc.bashrc
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+alias a2ps='a2ps --pro=color --line-numbers=5 --medium=A4'
+alias plotdigitizer='java -Xmx256m -jar /opt/PlotDigitizer/PlotDigitizer.jar'
+alias open='xdg-open'