Re: About PATH environment variable on OSX

[Jan Djärv]

Hello.

The way to this on newer OSX is to create /etc/launchd.conf and put something 
like:

setenv PATH /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin

in there.  I have not tried this myself.

I will test it and fix the documentation.

        Jan D.


7 apr 2013 kl. 20:19 skrev Darren Hoo <address@hidden>:

> 
> 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.
>