Re: About PATH environment variable on OSX

[Peter Vasil <mailing_lists@petervasil.net>]

Hi,

With this package you can solve the problem without launchctl and set
the PATH within emacs
https://github.com/purcell/exec-path-from-shell

Best,
Peter


On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Piotr Kalinowski <pitkali@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> writes:
>
>> The way to this on newer OSX is to create /etc/launchd.conf and put
>> something like:
>>
>> setenv PATH /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin
>>
>> in there.  I have not tried this myself.
>
> I'm on Mac, and I can confirm that this is the way to go, if you want to
> have correct PATH for applications that are not started from Terminal.
> What you set in /etc/paths and similar will work for the shell
> environment in Terminal, and applications started from there.
>
> It is worth noting, that modifying PATH in this way requires you to
> relog into graphical session. Actually, unless you run this manually
> through launchctl, a full reboot might be required. I can't remember, if
> that's the case.
>
> Best regards,
> Piotr Kalinowski
>
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