From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#7310: 23.2; environment not propery inherited Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 22:27:48 -0400 Message-ID: <8xaaltydzv.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1288579417 7587 80.91.229.12 (1 Nov 2010 02:43:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 02:43:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 7310@debbugs.gnu.org To: Randy Yates Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 01 03:43:33 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PCkMu-0008Oh-U3 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Nov 2010 03:43:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60388 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PCkMu-0000Hh-Do for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 22:43:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=52062 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PCkMk-0000Fn-OP for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 22:43:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PCkMf-0004sK-JT for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 22:43:22 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:35911) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PCkMf-0004sE-Hm for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 22:43:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PCk42-00066w-7X; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 22:24:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2010 02:24:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 7310 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 7310-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B7310.128857821323480 (code B ref 7310); Mon, 01 Nov 2010 02:24:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 7310) by debbugs.gnu.org; 1 Nov 2010 02:23:33 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PCk3Y-00066f-La for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 22:23:32 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PCk3X-00066a-3l for 7310@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 22:23:31 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PCk7g-0004Ht-Jv; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 22:27:48 -0400 X-Spook: Yukon Kosovo high security Croatian JUWTF PGP David John X-Ran: ,_8IaPF+ddyN&~8Ymh~r^<[.t+clic!FVtB7-%x*%^kQ9WS(._eOIZf2wT=9 (Randy Yates's message of "Sun\, 31 Oct 2010 21\:26\:24 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 22:24:02 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:41323 Archived-At: Randy Yates wrote: > I have an environment variable defined in an xterm, > > $ echo $LOCALTEXMF > /usr/local/share/texmf > > but when I run emacs, even with emacs -Q, then evaluating > > initial-environment > > in the scratch buffer does not reveal the LOCALTEXMF variable. This seems very odd. Are you sure $LOCALTEXMF is exported? What happens with (assuming a sh-like shell): export LOCALTEXMF=/usr/local/share/texmf emacs -Q M-: (getenv "LOCALTEXMF") ? (works for me) > In GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1) > of 2010-06-03 on xb-01.phx2.fedoraproject.org