From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [NEWBIE] exec path not expanding Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 10:56:24 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3F956538.2090702@yahoo.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1066755761 29961 80.91.224.253 (21 Oct 2003 17:02:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 17:02:41 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 21 19:02:39 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ABzu3-0002at-00 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 19:02:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ABztd-00015W-2W for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 13:02:13 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 37 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1066755381 28963456 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:117496 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:13427 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:13427 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? -- Kevin Rodgers