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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Galinsky <dima.exe@gmail.com>, 1541@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: bug#1541: 23.0.60; Emacs don't see $PATH
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 07:15:31 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1LB6vb-0006bV-M3@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3EF395A3-9A7A-42E7-B084-C65474AF2DE6@gmail.com> (message from Dmitry Galinsky on Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:54:51 +0300)

> From: Dmitry Galinsky <dima.exe@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:54:51 +0300
> Cc: 
> Reply-To: Dmitry Galinsky <dima.exe@gmail.com>, 1541@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
> 
> Emacs don't see $PATH environment variable.
> 
> Step to reproduce bug:
> 
> (setenv "PATH" (concat "/opt/local/bin:" (getenv "PATH")))
> (getenv "PATH") ;; => "/opt/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin"
> (shell-command-to-string "which git") ;; > /opt/local/bin/git
> (git-status) ;; produced the error
> 
> backtrace:
>    Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Searching for program"  
> "No such file or directory" "git")
>    call-process("git" nil t nil "rev-parse" "--show-cdup")

This is not a bug: setenv changes the value of PATH passed to the
child processes, but not the value Emacs itself uses to search for
executable programs.  In your case, had Emacs found and invoked `git',
it would have passed `git' the value of PATH that included
"/opt/local/bin".







      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-12-12 12:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2008-12-11 22:54 ` bug#1541: 23.0.60; Emacs don't see $PATH Dmitry Galinsky
2008-12-12  7:40   ` bug#1541: marked as done (23.0.60; Emacs don't see $PATH) Emacs bug Tracking System
2008-12-12 12:15   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]

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