Re: [NEWBIE] exec path not expanding

[Robert Pollard <rpollard@apple.com>]

Then what I need to do is get rid of this section of the  
environment.plist file.  Apple needs to fix this.  I'll do a check in  
Radar to see if this has been logged.  You can't expand on the PATH  
variable if you can't use variables in the definitions in this file.   
If they left it alone and allowed the GUI to use whatever the terminal  
uses as other *NIX environments do this wouldn't be a problem.

Thanks for all your help,

Robert

On Wednesday, October 22, 2003, at 05:38 AM, Hugh Wolf wrote:

> On 2003-10-21, Robert Pollard <rpollard@apple.com> wrote:
>>> 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>
>> ...
>> Obviously, it is not understanding the environment variables here.
>
>
> Remember that no shell is running in this situation.  As a result, $
> has no special meaning here -- it's just a character like any other.
> You can't use any form of shell processing in environment.plist.
>
>
>
>
>> 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?
>
> If you're launching apps outside any shell context I think the answer
> is that you're out of luck.
>
> Of course you can always create a shell script that sources your
> .bashrc (or whatever) and then opens Emacs.app.  Script Menu is a
> handy way to launch shell scripts from the gui.
>
>
>
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