From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Pollard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [NEWBIE] exec path not expanding Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 09:16:02 -0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <3F720A32.9030400@yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1066753150 23350 80.91.224.253 (21 Oct 2003 16:19:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 16:19:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 21 18:19:07 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 1ABzDv-0007YR-00 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 18:19:07 +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 1ABzCL-0007vv-01 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 12:17:29 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ABzBc-0007mq-5v for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 12:16:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ABzB4-0007cz-UU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 12:16:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [17.254.13.22] (helo=mail-out3.apple.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ABzB4-0007ck-B9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 12:16:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mailgate1.apple.com (a17-128-100-225.apple.com [17.128.100.225]) by mail-out3.apple.com (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h9LGG9k0027340 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 09:16:09 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from scv2.apple.com (scv2.apple.com) by mailgate1.apple.com (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.2.1) with ESMTP id ; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 09:15:38 -0700 Original-Received: from apple.com ([17.101.117.23]) by scv2.apple.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h9LGFqNA007568; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 09:15:52 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: Kevin Rodgers In-Reply-To: <3F720A32.9030400@yahoo.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) 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:13420 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:13420 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 Thanks, Robert > > > -- > Kevin Rodgers > > _______________________________________________ > Help-gnu-emacs mailing list > Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs