Mercurial > emacs
changeset 55852:92338f8e9f27
Document the workaround for the Mac OS X port not picking up the environment
variables from the dotfiles.
| author | Steven Tamm <steventamm@mac.com> |
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| date | Sun, 30 May 2004 00:35:44 +0000 |
| parents | f1d6a507dcfd |
| children | f900ce9a7062 |
| files | etc/ChangeLog etc/PROBLEMS |
| diffstat | 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/etc/ChangeLog Sun May 30 00:18:41 2004 +0000 +++ b/etc/ChangeLog Sun May 30 00:35:44 2004 +0000 @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2004-05-29 Steven Tamm <steventamm@mac.com> + + * PROBLEMS: Document the workaround for the Mac OS X port not + picking up the environment variables from dotfiles. + 2004-05-16 Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> * TUTORIAL.pt_BR: Add coding: latin-1, sentence-end-double-space: nil.
--- a/etc/PROBLEMS Sun May 30 00:18:41 2004 +0000 +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS Sun May 30 00:35:44 2004 +0000 @@ -1,6 +1,18 @@ This file describes various problems that have been encountered in compiling, installing and running GNU Emacs. +* Environment Variables from dotfiles are ignored with Mac OS X (Carbon). + +When starting Emacs from the Dock or the Finder on Mac OS X, the +environment variables that are set up in dotfiles, such as .cshrc or +.profile, are ignored. This is because the Finder and Dock are not +started from a shell, but instead from the Window Manager itself. + +The workaround for this is to create a .MacOSX/environment.plist file to +setup these environment variables. These environment variables will +apply to all processes regardless of where they are started. +For me information, see http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1067.html. + * Segfault on GNU/Linux using certain recent versions of the Linux kernel. With certain recent Linux kernels (like the one of Redhat Fedora Core