Re: [NEWBIE] exec path not expanding

[Robert Pollard <rpollard@apple.com>]

Hey Kevin,

On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 09:56 AM, Kevin Rodgers wrote:

> Robert Pollard wrote:
>
>> Hello Kevin,
>> On Wednesday, September 24, 2003, at 02:18 PM, Kevin Rodgers wrote:
>>> Robert Pollard wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>> I am curious as to why my exec path is not expanding the PATH 
>>>> variable.  Does it expand it when it uses it or should it be 
>>>> expanded in the exec-path variable?
>>>> I cannot get a directory listing and as per a previous post I get 
>>>> an error that it can't find the ls program.  Could this be the 
>>>> cause?
>>>> exec-path's value is
>>>> ("/$SYBASE/$SYBASE_OCS/bin" "$SYBASE/$SYBASE_ASE/bin" "$PATH" 
>>>> "/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin" 
>>>> "/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/libexec")
>>>
>>>
>>> Hmmm.  What do (getenv "SYBASE"), (getenv "SYBASE_OCS"), (getenv 
>>> "SYBASE_ASE"),
>>> and (getenv "PATH") return?
>> SYBASE = /Applications/Sybase/System
>> SYBASE_OCS = OCS-12_5
>> SYBASE_ASE = ASE-12_5
>> PATH = /$SYBASE/$SYBASE_OCS/bin:$SYBASE/$SYBASE_ASE/bin:$PATH
>
> That last line leads me to believe that some shell initialization file 
> is
> broken.  What is your login shell?  And exactly what do the commands 
> in the
> init file that are trying to prepend the $SYBASE directories to PATH 
> look like?

Kai found the problem.  The default install was in the /Applications 
folder for the system instead of my home directory.  I moved Emacs into 
my home directory and it still wouldn't work.  When I launched it from 
the terminal it worked fine.  I am going to have to investigate why the 
double-click doesn't work and the command line does.  I know my PATH is 
correct when I logon to the terminal but I don't know how to see the 
environment apart from the terminal.  If there was a GUI tool to see 
the environment variables this would probably show that they aren't 
expanded much the same as Emacs does when I use getenv.

If you have any ideas let me know.  If I find out what the cause is 
I'll post the cure to let you guys know.

Thanks,

Robert

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