swift 12/06/29 15:41:54 Modified: hb-working-variables.xml Log: Fix bug #414801 - Add blurb about COLON_SEPARATED and SPACE_SEPARATED. Thanks to "lynx" for reporting and suggesting the fix
Revision Changes Path 1.23 xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/hb-working-variables.xml file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewvc.cgi/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/hb-working-variables.xml?rev=1.23&view=markup plain: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewvc.cgi/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/hb-working-variables.xml?rev=1.23&content-type=text/plain diff : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewvc.cgi/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/hb-working-variables.xml?r1=1.22&r2=1.23 Index: hb-working-variables.xml =================================================================== RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/hb-working-variables.xml,v retrieving revision 1.22 retrieving revision 1.23 diff -u -r1.22 -r1.23 --- hb-working-variables.xml 19 May 2007 04:13:46 -0000 1.22 +++ hb-working-variables.xml 29 Jun 2012 15:41:54 -0000 1.23 @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ <!-- The content of this document is licensed under the CC-BY-SA license --> <!-- See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 --> -<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/hb-working-variables.xml,v 1.22 2007/05/19 04:13:46 nightmorph Exp $ --> +<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/hb-working-variables.xml,v 1.23 2012/06/29 15:41:54 swift Exp $ --> <sections> @@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ variables. </abstract> -<version>1.16</version> -<date>2007-05-18</date> +<version>2</version> +<date>2012-06-29</date> <section> <title>Environment Variables?</title> @@ -231,14 +231,22 @@ <p> The concatenation of variables does not always happen, only with the following -variables: <c>KDEDIRS</c>, <c>PATH</c>, <c>LDPATH</c>, <c>MANPATH</c>, +variables: <c>ADA_INCLUDE_PATH</c>, <c>ADA_OBJECTS_PATH</c>, <c>CLASSPATH</c>, +<c>KDEDIRS</c>, <c>PATH</c>, <c>LDPATH</c>, <c>MANPATH</c>, <c>INFODIR</c>, <c>INFOPATH</c>, <c>ROOTPATH</c>, <c>CONFIG_PROTECT</c>, -<c>CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK</c>, <c>PRELINK_PATH</c> and <c>PRELINK_PATH_MASK</c>. +<c>CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK</c>, <c>PRELINK_PATH</c>, <c>PRELINK_PATH_MASK</c>, +<c>PKG_CONFIG_PATH</c> and <c>PYTHONPATH</c>. For all other variables the latest defined value (in alphabetical order of the files in <path>/etc/env.d</path>) is used. </p> <p> +You can add more variables into this list of concatenate-variables by adding the +variable name to either <c>COLON_SEPARATED</c> or <c>SPACE_SEPARATED</c> +variables (also inside an env.d file). +</p> + +<p> When you run <c>env-update</c>, the script will create all environment variables and place them in <path>/etc/profile.env</path> (which is used by <path>/etc/profile</path>). It will also extract the information from the
