Re: compilation environment

[John Paul Wallington]

> I sometimes encounter situations that I have to set specific list of
> environment variables to satisfy foreign compilation tools.  This
> often happens while working on an embedded software development
> project.  I used to set those environment variables globally by
> contaminating whole emacs environment.  Can we add a customization
> variable something like below for this purpose so that the effect is
> localized?
> 
> -Tak

I think this is a good idea.  What do others think ?

> *** compile.el        Tue Jul  8 06:41:13 2003
> --- ../../../../../../emacs/emacs-21.3.50/lisp/progmodes/compile.el   Wed Jul 
> 23 11:02:54 2003
> ***************
> *** 593,598 ****
> --- 593,603 ----
>   and exit message; it returns a cons (MESSAGE . MODELINE) of the strings to
>   write into the compilation buffer, and to put in its mode line.")
>   
> + (defvar compilation-environment nil
> +   "Compilation specific custome environment list.
> + This list is temporarily prepended to `process-environment' prior to
> + starting the compilation process.")
> + 
>   ;; History of compile commands.
>   (defvar compile-history nil)
>   ;; History of grep commands.
> ***************
> *** 1090,1095 ****
> --- 1095,1101 ----
>       (if (not no-async)
>           (let* ((process-environment
>                   (append
> +                  compilation-environment
>                    (if (and (boundp 'system-uses-terminfo)
>                             system-uses-terminfo)
>                        (list "TERM=dumb" "TERMCAP="