From: Darren Hoo <darren.hoo@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: About PATH environment variable on OSX
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2013 02:19:51 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2ppy6td88.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In the Emacs info manual F.1.1 Grabbing environment variables
it says and I quote:
For the PATH and MANPATH variables, a system-wide method of setting
PATH is recommended on Mac OS X 10.5 and later, using the `/etc/paths'
files and the `/etc/paths.d' directory.
It doesn't work for me. This is my /etc/paths file:
$ cat /etc/paths
/usr/bin
/bin
/usr/sbin
/sbin
/usr/local/bin
but (getenv "PATH") gives "/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin"
and I haven't used any (setenv "PATH" ...) in my init file.
I can confirm that PATH settings in the /etc/paths and /etc/paths.d are
never picked up by the programs launched from the Finder by writing a
simple Cocoa App.
I can not find any NS-specific code that read the /etc/paths file
either.
So I think the paragraph I quoted above in the manual is incorrect and
should be removed.
next reply other threads:[~2013-04-07 18:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-07 18:19 Darren Hoo [this message]
2013-04-12 5:05 ` About PATH environment variable on OSX Jan Djärv
2013-04-12 12:39 ` Piotr Kalinowski
2013-04-12 14:07 ` Peter Vasil
2013-04-13 1:24 ` James Felix Black
2013-04-13 12:33 ` Piotr Kalinowski
2013-04-12 15:01 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2013-04-13 4:59 ` Josh
2013-04-13 12:41 ` Piotr Kalinowski
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