On Aug 24, 2010, at 6:58 AM, Jakub Piotr Cłapa wrote: > This came up before and the environment.plist is mentioned in many places as > the proper solution. It seems that Apple introduced /etc/paths.d for this but > you found that it is not sufficient for GUI apps. > > OTOH a simple (getenv "PATH") returns the same things as echo $PATH in a > Terminal window. Generally every environment variable I set in my .zshenv is > visible in DrRacket. (including all the paths from paths.d)
IIUC, the basic problem here is that on the mac, many users don't start racket from a terminal window, which means that there isn't a $PATH value to inherit. One solution to this is (as I do) to simply start drracket from the command-line. In this case, you inherit the $PATH environment just fine. I conjecture that you (Jakub) do this as well. Alternatively, you can use the .plist solution you describe. John
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