Compilations with environment variables when compiling

Compilations with environment variables when compiling

[tucker.hermans]

I'm having quite a difficult time trying to solve what I thought was a
fairly simple problem and after looking through the code myself and
doing various searches, I must now post.

I am using a version of Emacs 22 for Mac OS X and when make is run via
the compile command (compilation-start)  the makefile is misread since
Emacs does not have the necessary bash environment variables.

The makefile includes the line:

        include $(SIMULATOR_HOME)/projects/default/controllers/
Makefile.include

Where SIMULATOR_HOME is set in bash to be /Applications/Simulator/

I tried compiling from both my terminal based emacs and XEmacs on the
same machine and both worked as the variable is supplied to both login
and non-login shells.  I can also compile from the shell inside
emacs.  I have the variable shell-file-name set to /bin/bash.

Any help would be much appreciated.  The frustration of this problem
is keeping me from doing my actual work.

Re: Compilations with environment variables when compiling

[Joost Kremers]

tucker.hermans@gmail.com wrote:
> I am using a version of Emacs 22 for Mac OS X and when make is run via
> the compile command (compilation-start)  the makefile is misread since
> Emacs does not have the necessary bash environment variables.

the OS X gui ignores ~/.profile, so yes, this may happen. the answer to
your problem can be found here:

<http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1067.html>

HTH

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Re: Compilations with environment variables when compiling

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 30.12.2007 um 18:19 schrieb tucker.hermans:

> Any help would be much appreciated.


Mac OS X applications are not created in the same way as in FreeBSD  
or any other UNIX. No shell environment is used in this process, so  
no shell environments are copied into in the application's process  
environment. Nevertheless you have more than two ways to solve your  
problem:

	• use ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist, as recommended earlier (also  
lookup the defaults command, as in for example: 'export PATH=$ 
(defaults read "${HOME}/.MacOSX/environment" PATH))'
	• launch Carbon and other Emacsen as '"/Applications/Carbon  
Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs" &' from the shell
	• use something like '(setenv "INFOPATH" (concat "/Applications/ 
Aquamacs Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/site-lisp/edit-modes/info"  
":" (getenv "INFOPATH")))' in your user init file

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