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bug#7310: 23.2; environment not propery inherited
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From: |
Glenn Morris |
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Subject: |
bug#7310: 23.2; environment not propery inherited |
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Date: |
Sun, 31 Oct 2010 22:27:48 -0400 |
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User-agent: |
Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
Randy Yates wrote:
> I have an environment variable defined in an xterm,
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> $ echo $LOCALTEXMF
> /usr/local/share/texmf
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> but when I run emacs, even with emacs -Q, then evaluating
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> initial-environment
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> in the scratch buffer does not reveal the LOCALTEXMF variable.
This seems very odd. Are you sure $LOCALTEXMF is exported?
What happens with (assuming a sh-like shell):
export LOCALTEXMF=/usr/local/share/texmf
emacs -Q
M-: (getenv "LOCALTEXMF")
?
(works for me)
> 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