[Geany-devel] Missing environment variables for builds and executes

[Lex Trotman]

On 24 November 2010 03:01, Nick Treleaven <nick.treleaven at btinternet.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 13:40:42 +1100
> Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> When Geany is started from the Gnome menu it doesn't get environment
>> variables set in .profile, .bashrc etc.  Other window managers seem
>> ok.
>>
>> This means that builds don't see CFLAGS, python executes don't see
>> PYTHONPATH etc :-(
>>
>> Although builds and executes run in shells, a non-interactive shell
>> does not load any startup files.
>>
>> The attached patch adds the option (-l) to run the build and execute
>> shells as login shells which will load startup files.
>>
>> Two hidden prefs build_in_login_shell and exec_in_login_shell allow
>> you to disable this for builds or executes respectively if running
>> your startup scripts causes some problem.
>
> Unfortunately I don't know that a shell login argument is portable. I
> think -l is specific to bash, but even --login doesn't work for dash
> (the default /bin/sh on Ubuntu IIRC).

Patch actually developed and tested on Ubuntu.

>
> We could have string prefs for what arguments to pass to
> build/execute, empty by default.

Maybe it should be the whole shell command?? eg sh -l (or not -l as appropriate)

Cheers
Lex

>
> Nick
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