bug#7310: 23.2; environment not propery inherited

[Randy Yates]

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Hello,

(I'm running emacs "23.2.1" under 2.6.34.7-61.fc13.x86_64.)

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.

--Randy Yates
  yates@ieee.org
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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
Windowing system distributor `Fedora Project', version 11.0.10802000
configured using `configure  '--build=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' 
'--host=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' '--program-prefix=' 
'--disable-dependency-tracking' '--prefix=/usr' '--exec-prefix=/usr' 
'--bindir=/usr/bin' '--sbindir=/usr/sbin' '--sysconfdir=/etc' 
'--datadir=/usr/share' '--includedir=/usr/include' '--libdir=/usr/lib64' 
'--libexecdir=/usr/libexec' '--localstatedir=/var' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' 
'--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--with-dbus' 
'--with-gif' '--with-jpeg' '--with-png' '--with-rsvg' '--with-tiff' 
'--with-xft' '--with-xpm' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' 
'build_alias=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' 
'CFLAGS=-DMAIL_USE_LOCKF -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 
-fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US.utf8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=none
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: rcirc

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  use-hard-newlines: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
i t s ' <backspace> <backspace> ' s C-9 C-b C-x b <return> 
SPC a c t u a l l l y SPC <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
y SPC i n SPC m y SPC . b a s h _ p r o v <backspace> 
f i l e <return> C-x b <return> M-> C-p C-p C-p C-p 
C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p 
C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-n C-n C-n C-n 
C-SPC C-e M-w C-x b <return> C-y <return> q u o <tab> 
y e s , SPC r i g h t . <return> y e a h . <backspace> 
! <return> h u h ? <return> t <backspace> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> e <backspace> q u o t <tab> e v e n SPC 
w i t h SPC e m a c s SPC - Q <return> <help-echo> 
o k <backspace> <backspace> q u o t <tab> o k , SPC 
t h a n k SPC y o u . <return> M-x r e p o r t - e 
m a c s - b u g <return> e n v i r o n m e n t SPC 
d o e s n ' <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> <backspace> n o t SPC i n h e r i t e d 
C-a C-g C-g q u o t <tab> d o e s SPC - Q SPC p r e 
v e n t SPC t h e SPC i n i t . e l SPC f r o m SPC 
l o a d i n g ? <return> M-x r e p o r t - e m a c 
s - b u g <return>

Recent messages:
Making completion list...
Type C-x 1 to delete the help window.
Mark saved where search started
Mark set
Setting up indent for shell type bash
setting up indent stuff
Indentation variables are now local.
Indentation setup for shell type bash
Loading vc-svn...done
Mark set [3 times]
Quit [2 times]

Load-path shadows:
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/verilog-mode hides 
/usr/share/emacs/23.2/lisp/progmodes/verilog-mode

Features:
(shadow sort rect mail-extr message idna ecomplete rfc822 mml mml-sec
password-cache mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mailcap mail-parse rfc2231
rfc2047 rfc2045 qp ietf-drums mailabbrev nnheader gnus-util netrc
mm-util mail-prsvr gmm-utils wid-edit mailheader canlock sha1 hex-util
hashcash mail-utils emacsbug vc-svn regexp-opt sh-script executable pp
help-mode easymenu view help-fns apropos disp-table rcirc time-date ring
multi-isearch package reporter vc vc-dispatcher derived cl cl-19 tooltip
ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel x-win x-dnd font-setting
tool-bar dnd fontset image fringe lisp-mode register page menu-bar
rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mldrag mouse jit-lock font-lock
syntax facemenu font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang
vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek
romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese
case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev loaddefs button
minibuffer faces cus-face files text-properties overlay md5 base64
format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable
backquote make-network-process dbusbind system-font-setting
font-render-setting gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty emacs)