Re: [NEWBIE] exec path not expanding

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

Robert Pollard wrote:

> On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 09:36 AM, Hugh Wolf wrote:
>> If you launch emacs from the Finder or the Dock, it will be running in
>> an environment in which no shell rc or login rc has ever run.  As a
>> result, the value of PATH at will always be the default.
>>
>> If you want PATH or any other environment variable to have a
>> non-default value in an osx application, you have two choices:
>>
>> 1. Define the variable in ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist.
> 
> The PATH variable is defined in the environment.plist file.  The 
> following entry is in the file:
> <key>PATH</key>
> <string>/$SYBASE/$SYBASE_OCS/bin:$SYBASE/$SYBASE_ASE/bin:$PATH</string>


Since $SYBASE starts with /, you probably don't want that initial slash.


> Obviously, it is not understanding the environment variables here.  Is 
> there a way that you are aware of to make OS X read the variables from 
> the environment to help define a variable or add to a variable as in the 
> above entry?


-- 
Kevin Rodgers