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Re: How to set environment variables in IDLDE [message #74392]

Tue, 11 January 2011 21:13

mankoff
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On Jan 11, 4:49 pm, Paulo Penteado <pp.pente...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 11, 10:35 pm, mankoff <mank...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> But it does work if you start idlde from the terminal, right? So it
>>> would not be an issue with the DE, it would be in the shortcut.
>
>> It does work when launched from the terminal. It isn't an IDL issue
>> per se, but an issue with the way Mac passes environment inheritance.
>
> Could it be that the variables were set in .profile after the current
> desktop session started running? In GNOME, I noticed that processes
> started from the menus are given a copy of the environment variables
> as they were when the GNOME process was started. Which can make things
> quite confusing, as a process may get variables that are not set in
> the current .profile and *rc files anymore.

I logged out/in and even rebooted after setting up environment
variables, and they are just not read from the UNIX dot files. This is
known behavior on OS X, and using ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist is a
known solution, although a buggy solution in this case. Adding/
adjusting the environment variable in the IDL startup file works fine.

-k.

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		Re: How to set environment variables in IDLDE By: mankoff on Tue, 11 January 2011 21:13
		Re: How to set environment variables in IDLDE By: penteado on Tue, 11 January 2011 16:49
		Re: How to set environment variables in IDLDE By: mankoff on Tue, 11 January 2011 16:35
		Re: How to set environment variables in IDLDE By: penteado on Tue, 11 January 2011 13:08
		Re: How to set environment variables in IDLDE By: mankoff on Tue, 11 January 2011 08:39
		Re: How to set environment variables in IDLDE By: Foldy Lajos on Tue, 11 January 2011 08:25

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