Re: Inferior process mystery

[Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>]

on Wed Apr 25 2012, Andreas Schwab <schwab-AT-linux-m68k.org> wrote:

> Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> writes:
>
>> Yep, that is in fact the problem.  But how do I discover what is changing my exec-path?
>
> exec-path is initialized from $PATH as inherited by emacs, which appears
> to be different from the one set in your shell.

Yeah, but if I start up with -Q I get something much more reasonable, so
what I need to know is what in my init sequence is munging it.

>> | Original value was 
>> | ("/opt/local/bin" "/opt/local/sbin" "/bin" "/sbin" "/usr/bin"
>> | "/usr/sbin"
>> | "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_Users_dave_Public_MacPorts_Portfiles_editors_emacs24-macport/emacs24-macport/work/emacs-24.0.94/lib-src"
>> | "/opt/local/libexec/emacs/24.0.94/x86_64-apple-darwin11.3.0")
>
> This value was set during dumping, and is not very useful as the
> standard value of exec-path.

Actually that would have been a pretty reasonable value.  My problem is
that my exec-path is out-of-control, and I don't know why.

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