Re: [NEWBIE] exec path not expanding

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

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