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About PATH environment variable on OSX
From: |
Darren Hoo |
Subject: |
About PATH environment variable on OSX |
Date: |
Mon, 08 Apr 2013 02:19:51 +0800 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (darwin) |
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.
Re: About PATH environment variable on OSX, Josh, 2013/04/13