Re: About PATH environment variable on OSX

[James Felix Black]

Hello --

In recent versions of OS X, one can modify environment variables for the
currently running graphical session with the launchctl (1) command:

  % launchctl setenv PATH /foo/bar/baz:$PATH

... will work as expected.

HTH,
jfb

Peter Vasil writes:

> 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.
>>
>>