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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Improve search path handling?
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 17:06:09 +0100
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David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu> skribis:

> Found one big issue with adding a $PATH search path specification to a
> package: It messes up the 'set-paths' phase of 'gnu-build-system'.
> $PATH ends up being unset!
>
>     environment variable `PATH' set to `/gnu/store/dwjlh4id7ksdjiigfddw5d=
q617bajxxm-ruby-2.2.0/bin:/gnu/store/cdgpj8djhvfwsysa0bklx7l17bkjgnr6-git-2=
.2.1/bin:/gnu/store/paknwghpb3530zpw6kjzygcwyi4v2b7a-tar-1.28/bin:/gnu/stor=
e/gzfwcp3rx6vx9yhfn258pqravsihkhgk-gzip-1.6/bin:/gnu/store/v47nyd4lmk6079la=
hhn7qjg1x30sq6r0-bzip2-1.0.6/bin:/gnu/store/45cspsg2pi0d9n1x62r85iaf6118scn=
r-xz-5.0.4/bin:/gnu/store/b1hflfspi7d8y8d6xxsm1hpmh1s6aki9-file-5.22/bin:/g=
nu/store/5x6ypvynrc4y3dnynqj948c6xdhpagv8-diffutils-3.3/bin:/gnu/store/q1fk=
0vrzdz7vzawq32k2slpgxhrlq0b3-patch-2.7.1/bin:/gnu/store/b1msmz538khma08mg8d=
m6lw0vkjilbjd-sed-4.2.2/bin:/gnu/store/izbkwxcgikxlinj78lh1934f39n98mn2-fin=
dutils-4.4.2/bin:/gnu/store/jyib7byzyincn3q7mkkrm9q5wfbg105z-gawk-4.1.1/bin=
:/gnu/store/s7jlv9f6v23h17bnkbvcvqk1qnhg40pb-grep-2.21/bin:/gnu/store/vgjlz=
kg84jpzvz227ac5aygqx25bb6wh-coreutils-8.23/bin:/gnu/store/dvlp6nk7avz403585=
k9xndl6zqy6vwmj-make-4.1/bin:/gnu/store/nx4zd42igyb7ghmv4mxv6ncg8wr7ypa1-ba=
sh-4.3.33/bin:/gnu/store/4x401cpj6nmddji54l99cl89ggn5pgib-ld-wrapper-0/bin:=
/gnu/store/h7lqkyf4sc37lkbmnph9kmmsfqr3xk5n-binutils-2.25/bin:/gnu/store/16=
j0v2km34g471cs77gxlq0n0a956cw1-gcc-4.8.4/bin:/gnu/store/q2mm1wv4a3g0b29yv0r=
jybfjh8kr07qi-glibc-2.20/bin:/gnu/store/q2mm1wv4a3g0b29yv0rjybfjh8kr07qi-gl=
ibc-2.20/sbin'
>     environment variable `PATH' unset
>
> I think this can be remedied with a bit more work.

I think that=E2=80=99s because build systems are still passed a non-merged
list, no?

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.