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$PATH in system() shell
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From: |
John W. Eaton |
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Subject: |
$PATH in system() shell |
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Date: |
Wed, 4 May 2011 09:43:23 -0400 |
On 3-May-2011, Thomas Weber wrote:
| Hi,
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| the path used in the shell invoked via system() looks like the following
| (edited for better readability):
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| octave:1> system ('echo $PATH')
| /usr/lib/octave/3.2.4/site/exec/i486-pc-linux-gnu:
| /usr/lib/octave/api-v37/site/exec/i486-pc-linux-gnu:
| /usr/lib/octave/site/exec/i486-pc-linux-gnu:
| /usr/lib/octave/3.2.4/exec/i486-pc-linux-gnu:
| /usr/bin:
| ***
| /usr/lib/ccache:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games
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| The line marked with three asterisks marks the beginning of my path as
| user. However, the fact that /usr/bin is prepended to my path means that
| I can't use ccache when building packages via pkg.m.
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| Is there a reason that /usr/bin is prepended by Octave here? I've
| checked with 3.4 and it's still the same.
There is a bug report about this problem here:
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?31695
jwe