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Re: About PATH environment variable on OSX
From: |
Peter Vasil |
Subject: |
Re: About PATH environment variable on OSX |
Date: |
Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:07:58 +0200 |
Hi,
With this package you can solve the problem without launchctl and set
the PATH within emacs
https://github.com/purcell/exec-path-from-shell
Best,
Peter
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Piotr Kalinowski <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jan Djärv <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> 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'm on Mac, and I can confirm that this is the way to go, if you want to
> have correct PATH for applications that are not started from Terminal.
> What you set in /etc/paths and similar will work for the shell
> environment in Terminal, and applications started from there.
>
> It is worth noting, that modifying PATH in this way requires you to
> relog into graphical session. Actually, unless you run this manually
> through launchctl, a full reboot might be required. I can't remember, if
> that's the case.
>
> Best regards,
> Piotr Kalinowski
>
> --
> Intelligence is like a river: the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.
>
>
Re: About PATH environment variable on OSX, Josh, 2013/04/13