From: "Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
To: Darren Hoo <darren.hoo@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: About PATH environment variable on OSX
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 07:05:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <F1E6BEEA-A579-4091-B5F8-EA46E1DD5A32@swipnet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2ppy6td88.fsf@gmail.com>
Hello.
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 will test it and fix the documentation.
Jan D.
7 apr 2013 kl. 20:19 skrev Darren Hoo <darren.hoo@gmail.com>:
>
> In the Emacs info manual F.1.1 Grabbing environment variables
> it says and I quote:
>
> For the PATH and MANPATH variables, a system-wide method of setting
> PATH is recommended on Mac OS X 10.5 and later, using the `/etc/paths'
> files and the `/etc/paths.d' directory.
>
> It doesn't work for me. This is my /etc/paths file:
>
> $ cat /etc/paths
> /usr/bin
> /bin
> /usr/sbin
> /sbin
> /usr/local/bin
>
> but (getenv "PATH") gives "/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin"
> and I haven't used any (setenv "PATH" ...) in my init file.
>
> I can confirm that PATH settings in the /etc/paths and /etc/paths.d are
> never picked up by the programs launched from the Finder by writing a
> simple Cocoa App.
>
> I can not find any NS-specific code that read the /etc/paths file
> either.
>
> So I think the paragraph I quoted above in the manual is incorrect and
> should be removed.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-12 5:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-07 18:19 About PATH environment variable on OSX Darren Hoo
2013-04-12 5:05 ` Jan Djärv [this message]
2013-04-12 12:39 ` Piotr Kalinowski
2013-04-12 14:07 ` Peter Vasil
2013-04-13 1:24 ` James Felix Black
2013-04-13 12:33 ` Piotr Kalinowski
2013-04-12 15:01 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2013-04-13 4:59 ` Josh
2013-04-13 12:41 ` Piotr Kalinowski
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