From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Inferior process mystery Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:17:38 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1335457073 26342 80.91.229.3 (26 Apr 2012 16:17:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:17:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 26 18:17:52 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SNROA-0006m5-9W for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:17:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60587 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SNRO9-0002Wy-J5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:17:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:59354) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SNRO6-0002WF-4y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:17:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SNRO3-0005IE-Kl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:17:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-qc0-f169.google.com ([209.85.216.169]:39335) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SNRO3-0005Hf-Go for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:17:43 -0400 Original-Received: by qcsd16 with SMTP id d16so953021qcs.0 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:17:41 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type:x-gm-message-state; bh=LaLnAyxMzwcyhLxE376CpFNF36jmaaIZc/piJ/mmKVw=; b=Bi0otlM4O9Jm8+qLMrwhvR7nas/iixun5dSfUxbfiVE6x4wmTCY4dJRmYHh3epefFh NhW/FvaL+iFp7fNoS9Iodg7aiFTjEnhSY1Y4DFbpM3GXlsjaDrmopZzChwVPW7yUUu1v mTReCzHKrcLDZD7IK5bDobPDdJSktgGmDt7jOK4GTfjEa9m8mvvxDI/23qcBM2axTN6F oTddymnNjkgQThzifPgYy3rNWFga5bJ6/gCFc3jGJ1tkbDca8sVTK9jLxMyzOKoYELjn V6qSGcu6xQeSCA6wKrJAe/6GkAQ4lbwuiN6Pp3pODQA8D7zjqCXtqJI1ib2mDSP1Tl7I OQmQ== Original-Received: by 10.229.137.145 with SMTP id w17mr1758347qct.7.1335457061067; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:17:41 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from pluto.local (207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com. [207.172.223.249]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id hv18sm5787676qab.19.2012.04.26.09.17.39 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:17:39 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by pluto.local (Postfix, from userid 501) id 6526A351F8EB; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:17:38 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Andreas Schwab's message of "Wed, 25 Apr 2012 20:02:18 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130004 (Ma Gnus v0.4) Emacs/24.0.94 (darwin) X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnKAUB1rDgNLKzRsGk3FM5w/WBZe4DT3rxNYR9aHg10JM8NmwU/fmOU/99gfPfftZMgRvMk X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 209.85.216.169 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:150048 Archived-At: on Wed Apr 25 2012, Andreas Schwab wrote: > Dave Abrahams 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. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com